whats the point of banning ppl?

Lorax

I mean u can just sign up another account takes 10 seconds to do. And its not as if ppl with high postcounts that care about thier postcounts are gonna get banned anyway? Its usually ppl with low postcounts that get banned.. I think all the troll accounts ever on boards are probably from the same handful of ppl so maybe if u make a way to properly verify accounts like a landline number or something it would eliminate trolling completely. Just a thought..

scojones

Lorax wrote:

I mean u can just sign up another account takes 10 seconds to do. And its not as if ppl with high postcounts that care about thier postcounts are gonna get banned anyway? Its usually ppl with low postcounts that get banned.. I think all the troll accounts ever on boards are probably from the same handful of ppl so maybe if u make a way to properly verify accounts like a landline number or something it would eliminate trolling completely. Just a thought..

What is it with you and landline numbers? I think it was you that made a suggestion about anon posts on PI having to be verified by a landline number. This is mad IMO. If it wasn't you I do apologise.

Anyway, mods can see if a new user matches a user that has been banned. Smods and Admins can see their registration details and can try to come up with matches that way, they can also see their IP address. Regular mods cannot see the actual ip but can see if they match another user. It takes less than 10 seconds to ban someone. It takes alot longer to go find a new proxy, sign up, verify and then log in and post. We win, essentially.

Goodshape

Duplicate accounts can be found out and dealt with.

Hobbes

Lorax wrote:

I mean u can just sign up another account takes 10 seconds to do.

Takes a little longer then 10 seconds. Even so it takes even less time to ban and nuke a persons posts. If they keep it up they get site banned. At that point you really want to be trying you could end up getting [wiki]Glenstal[/wiki]'ed.

Of course at this point most idiots haven't thought it through and leave little footprints of who they are. For example.

Doing proxies only solves the issue for the person banned if they stfu and act like a different person, which they rarely do. Point is, most of these people do it for attention and their posts never last more then a day and everyone forgets who they are.

DeVore

It appears to work as Boards had a lot less muppets then other forum sites.
It takes more then 10 seconds to make up a new account and less then that to ban it.
Static IP's represent the online equivalent of telephone numbers so we ban them sometimes.

DeV.

Sparky

But you see Gordon loves to ban teh muppeh.

Tar.Aldarion

If there was no banning this forum would be ****e etc. That is why.
Landline?
What?
I don't even bother with one.

challengemaster

like was mentioned above, new accounts to circumvent bans are easy to find out as they're linked to a phone line. and admins i know, can easily check ip's.

Terry

check out the attached picture.
pay attention to "MacCleary" and MaCleary".

Nevyn

There is also the fact that business have had thier ip banned so everyone in the office suffers, colleges have been banned and the poster from those colleges been told who it was that was responsible and we have even had all of Cork banned at one stage

Kinetic^

Thaedydal wrote:

we have even had all of Cork banned at one stage

That's probably for the best Thaed!!!

~Rebel~

Hey, hey, Cork FTW!

I always wondered actually what happens if 2 users work from the same computer (family, or houseshare or something) and ones a muppet, is it usually just a case of tough luck on the good one?

biko

Afaik there has been a few "evil house mate/evil brother/evil twin" defences claiming someone else was using the computer. Usually this excuse does not fly.

Thrill

So, does this mean only one Boardsie per household?

Tar.Aldarion

No, as long as one is not a twat getting banned over and over, or if proof can be given that it is not you...

Rabies

thrill wrote:

So, does this mean only one Boardsie per household?

No. There are a few husband/wife and brother or sister combinations that post on boards.
A problem would only arise if one was a repeat offender and got them both banned.

seamus

biko wrote:

Afaik there has been a few "evil house mate/evil brother/evil twin" defences claiming someone else was using the computer. Usually this excuse does not fly.

IP bans are still a last course of action. Someone would have to be at the peak of muppetry to incur this. At that point, it's tough luck for anyone else using that IP. A lot of the time, IP bans are handed out to companies who get half of their employees to sign up and spam.

fade2black

julep wrote:

check out the attached picture.
pay attention to "MacCleary" and MaCleary".

You wouldn't be illegally downloading episodes of South Park now would you?

Vexorg

fade2black wrote:

You wouldn't be illegally downloading episodes of South Park now would you?

Snigger

humanji

How come Talliesin is the only one who puts in entertaining comments on the ban list. It makes for good reading, but some of you mods just don't put the effort in

Stabshauptmann

but all that time lost being amusing is what has her outside the top 3.

Looking at that list its amazing to see how much work the Smods have taken off the admins shoulders.

Giblet

Charge 5 euro for an account and be done with it

CuLT

humanji wrote:

How come Talliesin is the only one who puts in entertaining comments on the ban list. It makes for good reading, but some of you mods just don't put the effort in

I got a slap on the nose for being too sarcastic. Now it's just mundane x banned for y.

challengemaster

CuLT wrote:

I got a slap on the nose for being too sarcastic. Now it's just mundane x banned for y.

Tallesin's ban wrote:

Why thank you. We set up this site just so you could join and put self-serving adverts on every forum. Oh wait, no we didn't. **** off and get some research ethics.

that ban msg made me lol.

biko

sjones wrote:

What is it with you and landline numbers? I think it was you that made a suggestion about anon posts on PI having to be verified by a landline number. This is mad IMO. If it wasn't you I do apologise.

Boards landline craze continues

Beruthiel

humanji wrote:

How come Talliesin is the only one who puts in entertaining comments on the ban list. It makes for good reading, but some of you mods just don't put the effort in

After the 400th sitebanning it becomes boring and difficult to come up with something new, fresh and witty.
I'm open to suggestions, and for a small fee I can post special messages to your love ones

Talliesin

julep wrote:

check out the attached picture.
pay attention to "MacCleary" and MaCleary".

In that case he hadn't received his confirmation email yet.

Rabies wrote:

No. There are a few husband/wife and brother or sister combinations that post on boards.
A problem would only arise if one was a repeat offender and got them both banned.

This is why the partner with the most stars under their nick should be able to spank the other one if she's naughty.

humanji wrote:

How come Talliesin is the only one who puts in entertaining comments on the ban list. It makes for good reading, but some of you mods just don't put the effort in

They just don't have the love.

In fairness, Asok does try, he just isn't as good at it.

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

but all that time lost being amusing is what has her outside the top 3.

The main thing that dropped me from being number 2 after ecksor was a change in schedule. I'm no longer online in the prime Spamming hours (Also, "her"?)

Anyway, what's with this landline idea? Lorax, do you really expect us to call new sign-ups or something? Even if people did it for free that would still be pretty pricey. I don't think many people would be prepared to do that for free, modding's one thing being a phone-centre peon's another.

Talliesin

And who has a landline these days, anyway?

What's next? A suggestion that we receive messages by carrier pidgeon?

Gone West

humanji wrote:

How come Talliesin is the only one who puts in entertaining comments on the ban list. It makes for good reading, but some of you mods just don't put the effort in

ahh, Im not the only person who finds reading banlist.php hilarious.

Faith

No, you're not!

tba

FuzzyLogic wrote:

ahh, Im not the only person who finds reading banlist.php hilarious.

it should be stickied in humor