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So if you are the admin on your server here is how I caught a griefer on my vanilla SMP server:
watch it on youtube here:

But yeah aside from what was mentioned here how do you deal with griefers?

I find them by following suspects around inviisbly using vanishnopacket, or using a logging plugin to check griefings while i was offline then once i catch them i freeze them, demote them, revoking build rights, and rollback in front of them. After that, my admins and I use a variety of plugins to just harass them by rocketing, slapping, smiting, barraging, tping into the nether over lava , spawning 20 cave spiders/creepers at their location, etc. until they leave, then finally I ban and IP ban them.

I will use LogBlock as well as following people around to see what's happening. I also use MCBans to see if people had previous bans, and I have a whitelist to prevent bots from getting on.

Quote from RoboLizard

I find them by following suspects around inviisbly using vanishnopacket, or using a logging plugin to check griefings while i was offline then once i catch them i freeze them, demote them, revoking build rights, and rollback in front of them. After that, my admins and I use a variety of plugins to just harass them by rocketing, slapping, smiting, barraging, tping into the nether over lava , spawning 20 cave spiders/creepers at their location, etc. until they leave, then finally I ban and IP ban them.

Quite the process you have there. But I have a vanilla server so I can't do some of that fun stuff

Quote from williamquade

I will use LogBlock as well as following people around to see what's happening. I also use MCBans to see if people had previous bans, and I have a whitelist to prevent bots from getting on.

Interesting I didn't know such a site existed... I also have a whitelist as well. Is log block a plugin for bukkit or something?

Thanks for the posts guys.

yah my server is private between me and 2 people so if its griefed its pretty easy to see who was on then