banned forum members

xstrathyx

firstly, i wish to point out this is not a lets get a certain member re-instated thread.

I don't condone his actions and i am totally with the mod's/admin in their actions. Young children can access this site so they need to be protected and posting malicious threads with URL's etc is wrong on so many levels.

My point is, it seems that "certain member" seems to have more comebacks than Mike Tyson!

i have known in past from other forums the guilty members have had their IP address banned thus preventing them re-entering a forum under another alias. i am guessing from the last few days a certain member has been re-appearing under different aliases. Albeit the aliases are very close to his original forum name (doh him!)

Surely this person when banned is banned (permanently) and cannot re-enter under different aliases?

Thoughts....?

DamonC

Although not fool proof IP capture from registration can be used to check if a banned member is re-registering.

Although these are easily masked by using an IP spoofer. Google it, its very simple.

llamafarmer

Or he might have access to other computers at different addresses - school, office, friends' houses, internet cafe etc etc etc

missmarple

He is a bit of a saddo if he keeps coming back in my opinion. Hear-hear! 8)

Alex

Traditionally, we never used to ban by IP as certain ISPs put all of their users on to the same IP. Ban one, ban all. In addition, it is very simple to roll your IP, meaning it's not a long-term proposition. If you ban by host, then you have the problem of restricting access to other sharing the host. Not a problem for small sites, but on a site with over a 100,000 registered members, you'd have overlaps that would restrict innocent users.

Hence, the preferred method is good quality pro-active moderation. Ban the username and email. Wait for them to attempt to re-register, ban them again. Eventually they do give up.

rapid_uphill

if hes a clever troll, he would have masked his ip address in the first place.
also if he gets angry i heard he could take down the forum and sell it to dirt magazine.

Alex

rapid_uphill wrote:

if hes a clever troll

I don't think that the moderating team are going to have a problem here.

Anonymous

so, mask your ip address eh? hows that done. no reason of course, just curious for no particular purpose.

rapid_uphill

get a life.

ramemtbers

ip addresses, surely masking your ip address is illegal due to security reasons???

Alex

Masking your IP address is a civil right and can be done using a proxy server.

It is certainly NOT illegal.

ramemtbers

i thought proxy servers were against the law. thats what we got told at school by the e-safety teacher thingy :?:

stevet1992

ramemtbers wrote:

i thought proxy servers were against the law. thats what we got told at school by the e-safety teacher thingy :?:

Did they also tell you that doing the "Ali G Clicky Thing" with your fingers gives you finger problems ?

Of course they will tell you that ... It annoys them as you are bipassing their security and possiblly opening the network up to threats ... Its also against most Schools usage policy so be careful

ramemtbers

i never use them. its not worth getting caught. plus people only use them to get on gamnes sites which dont interest me. and also to get onto face book and bebo and other stuff which doesnt interest me.

montevideoguy

Ifit's a dynamic IP he's on (e.g. Virgin does this) all he needs to do is turn off his modem for a while (can be for any length of time really...depends if someone else on VM network is leased the IP) then he gets a new ip to use and no ban. Only way to stop is to ban anyone on Virgin media IPs

KnightofCydonia

Dammit. I gotta stop missing stuff!

myopic

Who got banned?

El Capitano

Alex wrote:

Traditionally, we never used to ban by IP as certain ISPs put all of their users on to the same IP.

Didn't you once ban everyone using AOL?

Perfectly justified if you ask me. Serves them right...

Andy

Would it be possible to ban everyone in wales somehow?

El Capitano

Andy wrote:

Would it be possible to ban everyone in wales somehow?

:shock: