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Multiple Accounts

  • 16-02-2013 11:42PM
    #1
    Harry Deerpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭


    I was just reading the "Prison" forum and in one of the threads, an admin banned a man because he had multiple accounts. I guess admins figure this out by checking the IP address and MAC address (I think?) that the profile was created from.

    Everyone nowadays has iPhones and laptops to access to Internet, but what happened in the olden days - around pre-2006/2007 - when the family shared the computer, was it okay to have multiple accounts from one PC and IP address?


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  • #2
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    If I was to hazard a guess I'd say that the admins didn't have the resources/time etc to check and the site would have been too small for them even to bother doing so.

    Different ball game these days though.


  • #3
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Multiple accounts per IP are fine, and often unavoidable given the arrangements of the mobile providers. It's multiple accounts per person that isn't allowed.


  • #4
    Harry Deerpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Harry Deerpark


    Spear wrote: »
    Multiple accounts per IP are fine, and often unavoidable given the arrangements of the mobile providers. It's multiple accounts per person that isn't allowed.

    How do you determine if someone has multiple accounts?


  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Harry Deerpark wrote: »
    How do you determine if someone has multiple accounts?

    There won't be a detailed answer to that, suffice to say that the kind of abusers who re-reg after being sitebanned don't tend to be geniuses or able to refrain from being abusers, and soon attract attention.


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