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Why perma-ban people and allow them to return?

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  • Posts: 17,381 Jeremiah Greasy Cougar


    Would one method be a cookie?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Would one method be a cookie?

    Well, bearing in mind Admin here would most likely prefer that their detection methods weren't discussed, I won't divulge too much (not that it's a massively guarded secret or anything) but users give many things away about themselves when (and more precisely how and with what) they access forums.

    Be like asking an audience to stand-up and then asking everyone to sit down that wasn't in born June, doesn't have red hair, writes with their left hand and only has three of their own teeth left.

    If someone is still standing, chances are that's the same person who had all those characteristics before.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 24,950 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Would one method be a cookie?

    Users can just dump a cookie, plus all the cookies and their usage are specified publicly in the privacy policy statement.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    If someone is still standing, chances are that's the same person who had all those characteristics before.
    That's a fairly excellent way of describing it.

    The fact is that the kind of people who get banned and re-reg are astonishingly stupid, so they tend to come back and do exactly what they did before and expect to not get caught.

    Humans are really good pattern-matching machines (actually we're a bit too good for our own good), so a re-reg can usually be spotted a mile away because he posts in the same way and in all the same forums as he did previously.

    The admins have a few other "background" tools that provide them with additional confidence that they've hit on a match but 99% of it starts with, "This guy reminds me a lot of someone..."


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    especially , when they , write like this ,


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Yeah, I mod a US forum site and the detection methods are easy.

    Strange spelling mistakes, similar typing structures, the way they phrase things, which fora in particular the new users frequent.

    It's pretty basic if you have the time to look into what the new users are doing.


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