Blocking fight continues!
Ok so today I have noticed that ranking ramp-up for a specific person still continues. I have blocked one device, but the other found another one, it seems..
Both devices are mobile phones of the same carrier - KDDI. Looks like some manager (the site is a talents' directory site) decided to rank his favorite pet up, no matter what, but it also looks like that person is only doing this from mobile phone, and his carrier stands unchanged. So, I decided to tighten block logic (if you can call that logic) on that specific person's profile.
Before, I was only blocking a specific User-Agent:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "KDDI\-KC35 UP\.Browser/6\.2\.0\.5" [NC]RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]
The new approach is to block all mobile phones of the carrier in question, which try to access the profile of the person in question, so the rewritecond was changed to the following:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "KDDI" [NC]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/ono/profile" [NC]RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]
So basically, in the first line I set on of rewrite conditions to be true when User-Agent of the device accessing the site contains the "KDDI" string (the name of the carrier), and the second line make the block more specific, telling only to apply the first rule when access is coming to the "/ono/profile" URI.
If both of these conditions are satisfied, the rewrite rule on the third line denies access to the page in question.
OK. Lets see how the smarty pants manager deals with that ;)