Should posters using more then one account be banned?

[KYPack]

007's post sums it up for me.

I'd add this,

If it's somebody cool like Nutz or 007, warn 'em.

If it's Tank, throw his goofy ass out immediately!

[Partial]

Well, I can assure you guys that immediately once someone starts 'causing trouble, we will ban them. If they come back with another account, fine, but the minute they start causing trouble they will be banned. It won't be a problem because it is significantly more work for someone to continue to come back and cause trouble then for us to click the ban button. Unlike at JSO where they were allowed to run free, for the most part we have someone on here at all times, and if we don't a simple email or PM will bring the matter to out attention. We will NOT let the issues of JSO affect us.

Bretsky, I don't think it'd be a good idea to foreclose information like that. Be rest assured you're in good hands and shouldn't be worried. We've got the situation under control.

Jack, we've got a pretty good system here. Someone might try to be sneaky and think they will pull a fast one, but be rest assured it will not happen.

My stance on the matter is that if someone wants multiple accounts, fine. If it's a Mike Sherman name, thats cool. Have fun with it. But let Mad, Nutz or I know before creating it. This place is about fun, too. But be rest assured that if that account ever acts up in a negative or harmful way, both accounts will be banned immediately.

[Partial]

007's post sums it up for me.

I'd add this,

If it's somebody cool like Nutz or 007, warn 'em.

If it's Tank, throw his goofy ass out immediately!

You cannot just pick and choose a policy based on who you do and don't like, though. It has to be a fair rule set-up to govern everyone.

[jack's smirking revenge]

Well, I can assure you guys that immediately once someone starts 'causing trouble, we will ban them. If they come back with another account, fine, but the minute they start causing trouble they will be banned. It won't be a problem because it is significantly more work for someone to continue to come back and cause trouble then for us to click the ban button. Unlike at JSO where they were allowed to run free, for the most part we have someone on here at all times, and if we don't a simple email or PM will bring the matter to out attention. We will NOT let the issues of JSO affect us.

Bretsky, I don't think it'd be a good idea to foreclose information like that. Be rest assured you're in good hands and shouldn't be worried. We've got the situation under control.

Jack, we've got a pretty good system here. Someone might try to be sneaky and think they will pull a fast one, but be rest assured it will not happen.

My stance on the matter is that if someone wants multiple accounts, fine. If it's a Mike Sherman name, thats cool. Have fun with it. But let Mad, Nutz or I know before creating it. This place is about fun, too. But be rest assured that if that account ever acts up in a negative or harmful way, both accounts will be banned immediately.

I agree with what you've said Partial. I think you guys do have a good system here and Mad's elimination of inactive accounts also helps. I think the mods are watchful, diliigent and responsive to people that get out of line. As long as that trend continues, there shouldn't be a reason to crackdown on people with mulitple personalities. The more aggressive you are in proactively stomping out such users, the greater the chances of you coming across someone in error. The worst thing that can happen is banning someone who is innocent of forum crimes, simply because you "suspect" someone has multiple accounts.

tyler

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I vote no since it can lead to abuse of the system. Anybody can come in a impersonate another poster. Some mods are narrow-minded so they will just ban the orginal poster by IP without taking the time to investigate the situation.

Some of us are college students who use our campus network to acess the internet. Ban one poster by IP and you risk banning the whole campus from the site.

Just imagine UW-Madison not being able to access Packerrats because of one idiotic hacker. There would be an outcry.

[Partial]

I vote no since it can lead to abuse of the system. Anybody can come in a impersonate another poster. Some mods are narrow-minded so they will just ban the orginal poster by IP without taking the time to investigate the situation.

Some of us are college students who use our campus network to acess the internet. Ban one poster by IP and you risk banning the whole campus from the site.

College networks assign a specifc IP per port. Even if you're using a switch, you will have multiple IPs

[Anti-Polar Bear]

College networks assign a specifc IP per port. Even if you're using a switch, you will have multiple IPs

Not where i am at. I live near campus so I get to use there wireless network. Upnorth banned me from his Christian site cos he thinks I was the hacker. Couldnt access that site from anywhere on campus. No one else can, although I could probably use the liberary IP, which the dorms are also associated with , but I'll eat shit before i do that. I love my computer.

[MadtownPacker]

To date no one has been banned and no one is getting banned unless they really screw up. This poll was just to let the poster know what the community thinks. They know who they are and they know they need to get their shit straightened out.

[jack's smirking revenge]

To date no one has been banned and no one is getting banned unless they really screw up. This poll was just to let the poster know what the community thinks. They know who they are and they know they need to get their shit straightened out.

Subversive. Sublime. Brilliant.

tyler

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College networks assign a specifc IP per port. Even if you're using a switch, you will have multiple IPs

Not where i am at. I live near campus so I get to use there wireless network. Upnorth banned me from his Christian site cos he thinks I was the hacker. Couldnt access that site from anywhere on campus. No one else can, although I could probably use the liberary IP, which the dorms are also associated with , but I'll eat shit before i do that. I love my computer.

I have a hard time believing that.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

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I have a hard time believing that.

Will, mabe your campus id different. Where i am at, they use only 3 IP. adminstration ip, dorm ip, and wireless. I use wireless so i can acess the internet while i take a shit.

[Partial]

From Wikipedia:

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP). Any participating network device — including routers, computers, time-servers, printers, Internet fax machines, and some telephones — must have its own unique address.

An IP address can also be thought of as the equivalent of a street address or a phone number (compare: VoIP) for a computer or other network device on the internet. Just as each street address and phone number uniquely identifies a building or telephone, an IP address can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on a network.

An IP address can appear to be shared by multiple client devices either because they are part of a shared hosting web server environment or because a proxy server (e.g. an ISP or anonymizer service) acts as an intermediary agent on behalf of its customers, in which case the real originating IP addresses might be hidden from the server receiving a request. The analogy to telephone systems would be the use of predial numbers (proxy) and extensions (shared).

[Zool]

Maybe the IP block bot banned?

10.10.10.x

Thats possible. I doubt your school uses 3 IP's for the whole school. Maybe the wireless routers feed to 3 seperate routers. That I could believe.

[Fosco33]

To date no one has been banned and no one is getting banned unless they really screw up. This poll was just to let the poster know what the community thinks. They know who they are and they know they need to get their shit straightened out.

Why does Matt-NC at JSO always insist he 'got banned' or his account was deleted? Just curious.

[jack's smirking revenge]

To date no one has been banned and no one is getting banned unless they really screw up. This poll was just to let the poster know what the community thinks. They know who they are and they know they need to get their shit straightened out.

Why does Matt-NC at JSO always insist he 'got banned' or his account was deleted? Just curious.

Yeah, I just read that too at JSO. Made me wonder... (Yes, I read JSO from time to time just to smell the stink of the rotting carcass). That's why I voted "no" to the poll: he sounds like a jilted lover who had one bad experience and now is full of hate. It was probably a misunderstanding, but he seems really pissed about his experience with PR.

tyler