If someone gets banned...

What is there to prevent him/her from joining again? Under a different name...

And how many banned people are there anyway? :D

as rico demonstrated,anybody who is banned can easily get back in simply by re-registering under a new username.Short of laying a complaint with the user's ISP there seems to be little that anyone can do to totally lock out the idiots(if they are really obsessive,they will just change ISP anyway).The only real solution is to ban them every time they are offensive.And if they are not offensive - why ban them again anyway?

Since it is so easy to return under a new name,it would be difficult to figure out how many of those"banned"simply log on again the next day.

It would be interesting to know how many times this option has been used though,and how many people have successfully argued against a ban.

We are able to view peoples I.P.s so when they reregister we simply ban them again.
Since none of us Mods have a life, (its one of the requirments) its not that hard to do. you just watch as new members sign up, and use the View new Posts function and check IPs on new members.
Richo was a very unusualy exception, but in the end we won, it took a lot of work by KBS and Jay, but it happened.

Im not aware of any Banned members being returned, alltough it can be done.

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Did they ever ban Dieselpower??????

Originally posted by Jimmy_11_cars
Did they ever ban Dieselpower??????

:devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil:

He's GONE!

I think we ban about 1-2 ppl a week, but a lot of those are spammers just trying to get away with advertising. It actualy takes a lot of disrespect and some poor behaviour before a member will get banned, and we take all posible steps to talk to them and try and sort out the problems first.
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Interesting, I hardly ever see advertisers

Originally posted by Jimmy_11_cars
Interesting, I hardly ever see advertisers

Probly cuz their spam is caught and deleted when you're not online :p

Well thats lucky for me then :p

I thought that most people have dynamic IP addressing

How do you ban someone if they have a different IP everytime they turn on their machine? :confused:

I am sure that people who are looking to cause trouble will have the same behavioral pattern...and my guess is those mods who have been around here awhile are pretty keen on recognizing that.

o i c

so the mods are more than just computer geeks they're psychologists too! ;)

Originally posted by TriStateGuy
o i c

so the mods are more than just computer geeks they're psychologists too! ;)

There is a under age member who cannot be on because of age. We always know he is back, by the style of his writing.

This is really stupid to bring this up.
but i was unable to log into the forums
for about 2 weeks
i was finally able to get an email reply from af
and all they said is that i had been banned
and im not sure why
so i had to resign up

but i would really like to know why i had been banned in the first place?
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Originally posted by Moppie
We are able to view peoples I.P.s so when they reregister we simply ban them again.

Be careful with banning the entire IP.

So you can find out if someone banned decides to join again? :confused:

What if they are already signed up under more than one name?

if the person is getting to the internet via DHCP its basically impossible to bann them 100%. you boot one IP, the person does a command prompt, an ip config, an IP RELEASE and voila!, they are back posting under a new name. i am not sure about NAT though. but if you have a static IP assigned by your ISP and you get booted you aint coming back because i think all the IP's under that main IP would be included too.

The technical side of banning IPs aside, because I have no idea how it works, there is ALWAYS a mod online. Simply becasue of the time zones and the number of mods we have, there is never a moment when someone isnt keeping an eye on the forums.
It also takes about 30secs to ban someone, even over a dail up, while it takes several minutes to rejoin or change your IP.
And anyone who wants to get banned then rejoin, then get banned again is doing it becasue thier immature little attention seekers, and so finding them when they rejoin is so easy its not funny. Infact we often ban them before they can make a second and sometimes if were hunting IP's and themed user names the 1st post.
Then you add the real idiots that do things like spam thier own forums, then in that forum discuss how thier going to couse trouble here, and all the usernames thier going to use. I have literaly been reading a thread in another forum explianing what they were going to do next, and banning members accordingly before they got to use thier new user names.


In the end someone might be able to couse trouble for a short amount of time, but the numbers are simply against them being able to get away with it long enough to do any actual harm.