Banned

[Hugh]

If someone gets banned from here, and if they resign up.

How would the be known?

[jumbler]

English much much??

I think Phil has a good idea of who is trying to flout the system.

AFAIK, each account has to be individually approved now.

[Heinrich]

There are also IP addresses.

[Hugh]

Cool.

Easy to detect

[jumbler]

But think for a minute. An IP will only relate to one connection/location.

I have 3 devices that would use wi-fi, and 4 phones that are cellular (and two of those are foreign), so they would obviously have different IP addresses. Potentially I could sign up with one of those.

This is approaching the limits of my technical knowledge, but I assume that cookies retained on the device play a part too.

[ladsnet]

Usually they just give themselves away pretty much instantly in a 'jump up and down shouting LOOK AT ME' way

[Hugh]

Creatures of habit

[ladsnet]

Birds of a feather

[Parsifal]

If JCarter signs in again with a different username we'll know.

[Hugh]

Nice. Don't want to have those to keep ruining it for everyone

[Heinrich]

When did he get banned?

[Hugh]

And why, if you can tell us?

[ladsnet]

Few days ago
Only for a month
Why do you think?

[Heinrich]

When is it permanent? Asking for myself as much as anyone else.

[ladsnet]

3 strikes

Or something really bad.

[the_scouser]

As a matter of interest how many yellow cards/bans have been dished out since this forum started on the new site?

[Tiuri]

25 permanent bans have been issued, so far. I can't see the number of yellow cards because they expire.

[the_scouser]

25 permanent bans have been issued, so far. I can't see the number of yellow cards because they expire.

Thanks, an effective deterrent for any naughty boys!

[Hugh]

Good that the bans are in place. Keep the site a nice place.
No abuse.

[LondonLad]

Well, there should be no abuse, no insincerity, etc on here in the first place, from anyone.