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Im not sure if this is an option already, but I wanted to ask if perhaps (under certain curcumstances **coughs Komo coughs**) that their could be a bann by user IP. As of now, I know of banning by nickname but in some extreme cases such as er.. that Ko dude, I think that banning by IP should be a option. Just a small suggestion since I think loads of people are tired of that Komo guy.
Banning his IP will do no good just more work for the office as all he has to do is call his IP office and say that he needs a new IP addy. and it will be given to him with in 5 mins.
wortcraft
I *really* like that suggestion. The problem is if he uses dial-up, he'll have a dynamic IP. It wouldn't really be fair to ban a series of IPs just to make sure he couldn't come back because that would affect others as well. Though, with the logs, I'm sure JP could see if it's static or dynamic, and if it's static, I give my thumbs up. :-)
AJ
True, wortcraft, but maybe he'd actually learn his lesson. He's already been banned three times... (and he already has negatives on his newest account). if he hasn't learned it by now, maybe banning his IP will wake him up.
AJ
Oh. Sorry this was kinda a bad suggestion. I forgot about having dialup. If he doesn't, why would he go through all that trouble just to be unbanned from AO? He wouldnt go through such a process to be unbanned from AO. My opinion, again.
Guess all user's IP's are static, what if using a proxy? ;)
Like yours says, it would say proxy detected.
yea true maybe he has learned. but he is going to keep getting negs on his new name even if he dont say but hello because he has already upset a few peeps. i would have to say that i thank his best bet is to start a new man and not tell anyone and no use any of is ko*** if he his realy here to learn/teach. the way it looks he spend most of his time typeing about pts. like it is a game.
good luck in what ever he does.
wortcraft
What would probably keep most of the kiddies out would be a "poison" cookie. If, persay, someone got banned... the next time they visited the site a cookie was fed to their browser that looked a whole lot like a session id, but was a "permanent ban" for the browser. Of course, this would work only for the amount of the time cookie is cached (64k I think is the spec, though explorer seems to keep a crapload more than that) and is, technically, defeatable. But it would probably trim the moron population down a bit.
No, I'm not using any proxy now, I use them sometime, but not now.
I don't know why some times under my post says "proxy detected" while I am not using one, and sometimes it disappeared.
I wanted to discuss it in a thread but after searching I found the same thing was posted, but JP just said that it is not a bug and he closed it. But I guess it is, because neither I and my ISP using proxy.
Yeah, I would hope it would trim it down. I've been getting more headaches with this komo guy then what I get at work AND home. Thats scary!
i was gonna post a new thread titled " I nominate ko*"
and have the text say " for the kididiot of the month award"
but since this thread is here.. no need to.
you would think that he would learn..
alternatively.. could it be that he's doing all of this on purpose ?
You might take some innocents along with it, but you could always use a network block rather than a specific host block...probably a /24 would work...
how about your account has to be active for 90days b4 u can even post??
I'm surprised he didn't post in this thread
You know, sumdumguy has a good point. What if Ko* is just doing this to get on everyone's nerves? For all we know, he's some other newbie who was banned a while back and just wants to get everyone here rilled up again (over and over) just because he thinks it's funny. I realize it's unlikely, but you never know what lengths someone will go to to get other people's attention...
AJ
exactly.. avdven.. we're all gonna have to take profiler type courses to try and recognise the style of writing..
an admin/mod could look at the ip's of the various banned individuals and compare to the newbies/lamers and if their ip resolves to the same geographical location then post(or pm) an alert to the other admins/mods to be on the watchout for an ip range.. not for banning per-se, just for "reference purposes "
now i don't know what the admins and mods can see in terms of seeing an ip # for each post
but.. at other forum (of which i'm one of the admins) we can see the ip # of the current post and it shows the ip of this same member at his/her last visit to the forum.
so.. just to explain in case i wasn't too clear..
the admins/mods could see the ip #'s within each individual post..
yeah, a specified time of membership (like say, only 30 days, 90 is extreme) would limit people to one account/mo. Every new time, he'd have to wait another month, and get bored with it pretty quick.
Whoa! What if sumdumguy and avdven were right? It might not even be another "newbie" who was trying to rock the boat. What if it were someone like focmaester? Most likely he is around here somewhere, too. And who knows what his motivation might be this time around. I'm sure there are many others it could be, too. I haven't been around that much to know who else might possibly get a kick out of doing this.
ko-dudes TO-DO list in AO:
1st: Get an account that starts with ko-
2nd:Say i am sorry about last account but i have "learned"
3rd: Do something stupid with that account such as:
Complaining why his last -now 3- account got banned and how he wants it "unbanned"
Making a stupid post
Or just pissing people off
3rd: Whine about why i got antipoints for my last post.
4th: Get told what i shouldnt have done by people like Draziw, JC, TC, jehnx...
5th: Call everyone in AO ungrateful and complains that this site sucks
6th: he gets banned
7th: go back to number 1
Over and over and over and over....
EXACTLY what i was just thinking, Airhead. My thought was Mariu or System_Overload, though. Just coming back to "piss off" the regulars at AO.Quote:
It might not even be another "newbie" who was trying to rock the boat. What if it were someone like focmaester?
My other thought... sort of out there, but what if the "K" repetitious SN's aren't the same person? Any number of people could be doing that "ten step" process blow posted. (see above). ah well. dunno if there's any way we can help it.
giselle
well now that i've reread what ko* said in his DoS/DDos thread http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=230913
i think he, for one, isn't a member who's been here before..
when i stated "sorry if i go OT here but where is hogfly when you REALLY need him ? (if you catch my drift) "
he replied "who is hogfly?" so, unless his acting skills improved for a few minutes, (and i doubt that)
i'd have to rule out this theory on him being a past (more experienced) member .. i mean really.. who wouldn't know who hogfly was ? or what he would sometimes do in a thread.. ? lol
edit: no spitfire.. ko* has addmitted numerous times that it was him returning..
Also, what if two people with different accounts (siblings or public computer) use the same computer? Banning the IP would ban everyone else that tried to access AO through that computer.
Cheers,
cgkanchi
i think kom* has a computer stutter everything just repeats it self lol
Greetings All:
I agree with most that IP banning isn't the way to go.
But, be rest assured, I'm always adding things in the site to help make it as free from trouble-makers as possible.........
thanks for the suggestion though!