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01-04-2007, 04:38 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 337 Location: STL  | Persistent Spammer Hey I havent had many issues in the past but I have a certain person posting over and over their website. He probably has used 10 different accounts, I been banning his IP's and user names but this guy just wont give up. Is there anything I can do other than just banning, hes promoting his forum which is hosted on a free forum service, should I get even or let it go. (I do have a spam bot)
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01-04-2007, 04:40 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,034 Location: Michigan, US   Recent Blog: Action figures and comics in SW:TOR?s future? 
| I certainly wouldn't "get even". By doing that you're no better than he is. Just keep on banning him, eventually they will give up. Theres nothing more you can really do.
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01-04-2007, 05:11 AM
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Title: AF Lead Developer
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,186 Location: OHIO, US 
| One thing I have done in the past is to look for similarities in how ppl are signing up. IE common traits to an email address or username. then I would put those common traits in my do not allow filters. Unless they are too broad. I have even went as far as causing a 404 error to come up when someone attempted to register with one of the common traits. That confused the hell out of them.
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01-04-2007, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Phoenix, AZ | Don't ban him, tachygoestocoventry him in the User Banning options in vbulletin. He sees his posts but nobody else does and wonders why everyone is ignoring him...Fun. Or there is that neato Miserable Users mod over at vbulletin.org. It makes all kinds of problems 'appear' for this particular user. He gets aggravated and eventually stops coming to your board because to him, your forums are terrible. Slow loading, errors, timeouts... hehe. I find this far more entertaining than banning them. | ||||
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01-04-2007, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,034 Location: Michigan, US Recent Blog: Action figures and comics in SW:TOR?s future?
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01-05-2007, 07:59 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada
| If your using vB, you could always be evil and put him in the miserable users list....  | ||||
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01-05-2007, 04:12 PM
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| Title: Groupie
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Phoenix, AZ | Quote:
Great idea, I wonder why I didn't think of that...  | |||||
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