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Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on February 01, 2003, 08:34:57 PM

Question.

Are users who were Banned from the old EzBoard's going to be allowed to return to the forums since they are changing to FuseTalk?  Or will the EzBoard bans be carried over?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on February 01, 2003, 08:38:35 PM

Unfortunately, it's nigh impossible for us to bring that ban list over here, so everyone effectively gets a second chance.  However, now we have additional tools to make bans even more permanent, so if they screw up this time ... it might as well mean the gallows.  

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on February 01, 2003, 08:40:44 PM

Even more permanant... would that mean banning like this: 34.*.*.*?

I can't really think of a way to effectivly ban people, because they can proxy/spoof IP addresses, and then get new E-mail addresses.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on February 01, 2003, 08:49:24 PM

Yes, but this Forum requires a unique e-mail address for each user.  So someone who's really determined to cause problems still could, but they would have to sign up for a new e-mail address, spoof their IP, register all over again, and get their password before they can cause trouble.  It's a decent deterrent.  And we also have ... other ways.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on February 01, 2003, 08:50:53 PM

What are the so-called "other ways"?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on February 01, 2003, 09:02:15 PM

Like I'm going to tell.  

Title: Banned Users
Post by: MikeHrusecky on February 01, 2003, 09:03:05 PM

The IP is traced to your house and I come over and sit on your head until you scream like an itty bitty girlie man.

Then I format C: and hit on your sister, if applicable, before I leave.    

Title: Banned Users
Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 02, 2003, 06:19:39 AM

But aren't you going to (clap) pump, you up first?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: PGC-Agent Cooper on February 02, 2003, 08:27:28 AM

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Title: Banned Users
Post by: ThePerm on February 03, 2003, 06:29:33 AM

Id rather him hiton my sister(ok i really dont have a sister)...its better then him hitting on my brother(i had a freind who did that once....a guy....I am a tolerant person...but that is gross.)

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Cru_Jones83 on February 06, 2003, 04:55:51 PM

Quick Question,

I am at University right now, and everyone is on the same network and share the same IP... if some idiot at my University gets banned, does that mean that I am going to get banned as well?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on February 06, 2003, 05:14:57 PM

Possibly.  But that will be a last resort.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on February 06, 2003, 05:32:24 PM

Yeah, I'm in the same situation, with the shared IP address stuff.

Also, the fact that mine periodically changes means if some other idiot gets banned, and then my IP changes to the one that is banned... I'm banned.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Cru_Jones83 on February 06, 2003, 07:58:29 PM

That already happened to me on the EZ boards... I tried to log in... (I hadnt for like 5 days) and it said I was banned... luckily like 3 days later I was unbanned somehow (must have switched again).... just wondering if maybe you could use those "other measures" you were talking about before you do an IP ban... thanks Rick.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on February 07, 2003, 09:57:17 AM

What would these other measures be?

Is it possible to ban a broadband user with thier MAC address?  

Title: Banned Users
Post by: OutOfTheCube on February 07, 2003, 05:02:37 PM

Quote

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Originally posted by: RickPowers
Unfortunately, it's nigh impossible for us to bring that ban list over here, so everyone effectively gets a second chance.  However, now we have additional tools to make bans even more permanent, so if they screw up this time ... it might as well mean the gallows.  

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Third chance in my case...

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Mike Works on February 08, 2003, 07:01:19 PM

The last time someone evaded an IP ban, I got my country to make Avril Lavigne famous. Now we don't want something like that happening again... right?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 10, 2003, 09:25:59 AM

Definately not, and what ever happened to our comics?

Title: Banned Users
Post by: MrMen on April 23, 2003, 10:26:32 AM

How do you change your IP address with proxies? If you are banned from an irc server for example.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on April 23, 2003, 12:12:49 PM

Free Kevin

Title: Banned Users
Post by: mouse_clicker on April 23, 2003, 01:04:47 PM

If anyone goes through the process of getting out of an IP ban, I eel very sorry for that person because s/he is so devoted to a message board on a Gamecube website that they have to break the law to visit it.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on April 23, 2003, 07:21:14 PM

Proxy is not illegal, nor is IRC BNC and stuff.

However, some dumb Super-DMCA bills want to make that illegal... along with firewalls, ICS, NAT and other useful stuff.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: enigma487 on April 29, 2003, 04:55:20 PM

rick,
you've got me intrigued (sp?) with you banning methods.  You say that blocking an IP is an option.  So.  i live in a college house.  we have 8 computers hooked up to the internet through an 8-port Linksys Router that is connected to our Cable modem.  to anyone in the realworld, our IP address will all look the same (actually the IP that Charter Communications gave our modem).  so, wouldn't an IP ban be sort of ridiculous?  you'd be blocking anyone that would be trying to post from any of the computers in my house.  and the same thing would happen at most schools, or anywhere that has a LAN set up...  wouldn't it?  now, i may not be the IT director of a website, but i do have a hand in a website and i'm pretty sure i have enough knowledge of computers to know that this isn't feasible...  another poster also mentioned to block by MAC address...  MAC addresses are only accessible across a LAN.  get on the net and they are useless.  feel free to write me back in this thread or e-mail me.    

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on April 29, 2003, 07:00:40 PM

Like I said, we have other methods we can use as well, which I'm not at liberty to divulge.  

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Matt on April 29, 2003, 07:13:44 PM

Something tells me cookies are involved in this secret method of banning people from the boards.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: enigma487 on April 30, 2003, 07:40:43 AM

not even to a curious Computer Science Major?
Matt:  Cookies are computer specific, and could be fixed just by clearing out your cache files.

Title: Banned Users
Post by: Gamefreak on May 02, 2003, 04:44:25 PM

Cookies? First of all, most people's Internet settings wouldn't allow PGC's cookies to get by since they would be third party and would have to get info without the user's permission....

Title: Banned Users
Post by: RickPowers on May 02, 2003, 05:02:35 PM

We don't use third-party cookies.  All our cookies are set by our server.  Third party cookies are ones that our advertisers would try to set, and we don't use those.  That said, no, that's not it ...