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| Thread ID: 113220 | 2010-10-10 14:45:00 | When Someone Gets Banned ------------> | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1143295 | 2010-10-11 13:04:00 | I'm guessing mine was and it was after an admin reviewed it so mehIn most cases (and certainly in the case of PressF1), even the admins can't view your password - it's usually stored as a hash in the database, ideally salted to prevent comparison with other hashes. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1143296 | 2010-10-11 13:29:00 | As I'm not a forum moderator I would not have a clue. I might, however, create a word database based on frequencies of words and orders of same of previous banned members and compare same with new posts if I was all that serious. Not sure if that would work though. Much like key words they look for in Emails and phone transmissions perhaps. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1143297 | 2010-10-11 18:05:00 | Yeah we don't care enough to bother, it's not worth our time, much in the way it's not worth our time trying to implement new anti-spam measures. For now, what we have is relatively good :) And Erayd is right, unless it's some crappy ass forum software, us mods / admins can only see a string of random letters and numbers. What happens is then your password is hashed, salt added, and hashed again, then compared with the hash that's in the database for your user. Essentially once it's in there, we won't be getting it back, but you *can* reset it. ...or something to that effect is how it works anyway. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1143298 | 2010-10-12 06:23:00 | Tor is Ftw! its going to be useful behind the great firewall of china | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1143299 | 2010-10-12 06:37:00 | Tor is Ftw! its going to be useful behind the great firewall of china 1) Increases the latency 2) May implicate users to child porn accusation and what not 3) Peer-to-peer technology - gonna suck up a lot of your cap! |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1143300 | 2010-10-12 19:06:00 | For an extreme case elsewhere... IDForums had a troll/spam/wtf member a few years back, that went by the name of Reyherks. Guy would post exponential volumes of abuse, and had a unique ability to derail just about any thread. He was truly infamous before he even left. And leave he did, by way of ban. He kept signing up under different names and different IPs; he had a vendetta he had to pursue. Long story short, 15-20 bans later, the ONLY way around the hundreds if not thousands of posts this guy was trying to generate was to ban every IP address out of Malaysia. To this day he keeps trying, and Malaysia is still banned. That's how effective a spammer the guy was. But people of his level of dedication? One in a hundred million. Thank goodness. |
PEBKAC (16009) | ||
| 1143301 | 2010-10-13 03:14:00 | Now that I think about it, I recall a situation on IRC... Not sure of the exact circumstances, but a whole Thai ISP is banned from one channel. Whenever anyone with a hostname matching *!*@*.revip2.asianet.co.th joins, they are insta-banned. It's happened for as long as I can remember. That's one bonus on IRC, hostnames. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1143302 | 2010-10-13 03:24:00 | YES. IRC is excellent like that; I've had to do it in the past because some persistent but none-too-clever antagonist wouldn't leave it be...had to ban her in several different ways as she was using work, home and iPhone to fight with people. | PEBKAC (16009) | ||
| 1143303 | 2010-10-13 03:30:00 | I moderate a couple of Forums - one of which is hosted on one of my own domains (MyBB software - on a recommendation from some here) . The vBulletin software sounds much like the MyBB software and I can ban IP addresses (or ranges of IPs), as well as reused email addresses . One of the most effective anti-spam measures for us (since I manually activate new users because we have low volumes of applicants - just how we like it!) is Google . If I don't recognise the email domain or the IP address, or the username looks a bit suspect, I google the username to see how many other forums it is in use on (and where those Forums are and what their subject matter is - ours is relatively specific) . And I often do an IP lookup . Generally if it's not a Kiwi or Aussie IP address it doesn't get activated (although there are exceptions) . Especially if it's coming from a non-English speaking country, like China, SE Asia or Eastern Europe . . . |
johcar (6283) | ||
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