a: run multiple sock accounts
b: spam the board with an endless stream of posts and pics that do nothing but eat bandwidth and storage space
Anyone?

Badger
Dork wrote:Do you have any suggestions for a policy that would reduce the negative effects from his threads without pissing off the bar thread and apokolyptica folk?
It just seemed to me that fireelf is blanently violating the spirit of the rules here with the multiple accounts/socks, and simply chewing up board resources with all the images. I know bandwidth is not free.
Archantael wrote:As for socks...I seriously doubt that given the sorry state of phpBB coupled with the existing moderation structure of the eplaya that quashing the extra accounts is even possible.
Dork wrote:Archantael wrote:As for socks...I seriously doubt that given the sorry state of phpBB coupled with the existing moderation structure of the eplaya that quashing the extra accounts is even possible.
We can often tell it's the same person because they have the same IP and their posts look the same, and there might be some ways to code in a little extra detection, but if someone really wants to they can avoid detection. Different computer, different IP, there's no way to tell it's the same person phpbb or otherwise. Even with the same IP they can claim to be two people living or working together.
We could always *gasp* ask people to only use one account if it's a problem.
Emily can delete users and ban IPs when necessary, but that's generally reserved for spambots.
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