Neville

yesterday i saw a disturbing thread from Noobz, i was so surprised!!!!!!!!!! i remember this former member, he was banned from fishlore last march i think (Previous user name: Goldfishcare), so he registered again with a different user name this time!!!!!!! i thought of this before, what if a banned member registers again with a different user name? is there any way to prevent it?

Tom

I think that Mike should be able to prevent someone from using the same email.
Tom

sirdarksol

Aside from that, he can block a particular IP, so people can't log in from the same household. However, they can go to their friend's house, or to the library, and register.

Tom

But then, if they wanted to come on, they would have to get up and go out. That's why, you combine your idea and my idea and that should be great.
Tom

armadillo

Exactly. It works by IPs.

TheEssigs

Musta missed that one...

armadillo

yeah, or he did like Neville said: registered from a friend's house or something.

atmmachine816

There is another member like this too but I do not know why the two were banned.

Chief_waterchanger

Member bannings are not something discussed amongst the public side of the forum because it is an issue for the Moderators and Administrator. The only reason for any account being banned is for breaking the rules that everyone must click 'I agree' saying they agree and have read the ToS, or Terms of Service, agreement.

MagpieTear

Rule Number one of the Fight Club is...

Mike

Hee he

Actually, it's no big secret or anything, if you don't follow the very simple rules you don't get to be a member. Goldfishcare was rude to other members and so we banned him.

COBettaCouple

Fishlore's a great community and there's not many rules to live by here - it's sad when someone can't handle that.

Sabi

Ditto, Dave! I saw the guy but ignored it, they'll always be ppl like that i'm afraid.

But speaking about IPs...
I requested for access to a certain section in another forum, they came back to me saying that myself and, naming 3 other members, have the same IP address, asking if we used the comp, were they my user names etc. But anyway, i had nothing to do with them apart from the fact that one member was from the same city as myself (i dnt knw abt the others). How can this be?

Butterfly

Don't know Sabi thats a Mike question which I will send to him right now
Carol

armadillo

Which thread is that, Neville?

armadillo

I am guessing somehow the security software is picking up on the IP from the J'burgh router? I am curious about Mike's answer on this. It'll be a technical glitch somewhere.

Jacko

He could have used different IP addresses from the same house, my place has 3. (we have wireless and 2 different servers) or if he switched providers I think that might switch IP addresses.

atmmachine816

hmm this is what I figured. Good Job to the mods and Mike for keeping the forum safe and friendly

Butterfly

but could three different people at different places have the same IP? I think that was Sabis concern.
carol

sirdarksol

Huh, that is odd. Out of curiosity, Sabi, what kind of internet access do you have? (Dialup, DSL, Cable, Satelite, etc...)

Neville

Fishlore has some simple rules; one is respect for another human being. it's sad if someone can't maintain these simple rules! here we always try to help each other, i learn something new from fishlore everyday, everybody is a newbie in this forum.

Neville

Mike must have removed it, it was in the Genreal Discussion part.

Sabi

Uh, would it help if i said wireless?

Thats correct. I'm curious to know how it can be?! I can say that my pal and i use the same internet service provider.
Thanks

sirdarksol

Yes, it would, Sabi. I wonder if that's why it's coming up as multiple users having the same IP. If you have municipal wireless internet, each transmitter might be an IP (not sure how these things work precisely, I'm just making an educated guess)

Mike

If I recall correctly from a file sharing discussion I had with a friend some years ago, sometimes college (i.e. dorms) can transmit the same IP address for many of the people within the same dorm. So if we banned by IP only, then we could potentially exclude many people.

Can you recreate this and email me a screen print (alt + print screen) via a word document or something? Maybe we can fix it.

zigmeister

thanks to all the moderators and administrator!!! We have to deal with rude people face to face in the "real" world. So, its nice to come here and not have to deal with rudeness. Thanks for making this a nice place to visit!

Sabi

Did you get my pm, Mike?

Trpimp147

im lost i didnt see this... who what and where

Butterfly

The original post has been removed due to content.
carol