Being banned from the site

worknboy

Well-Known Member
Sothis, Hi and thanks for all your hard work! If someone is banned for the site how are they prevented from just creating another email account and logging in under that one?
 
Generally you can do an IP ban. Although yes that can be circumvented to, it just takes more effort on their part to get a new IP.

Without grabbing more verifiable personal information, that is about all we can do.
 
usually banning IP numbers can result in taking out a large host of people, if the person is logging in from a public account such as school, library. however, other than doing that, it really doesn't stop a person from creating another email and returning. that's how all sites are set up unless it comes that it's time for IP ban, which is sort of pointless in a way, it's not that hard, sometimes your own net provider will change the IP address, also, there are add-ons that you can travel anonymously via a proxy where you can hop from recent proxy to recent proxy, making it even that more difficult to ban them. and that's even before someone with tech knowledge who does hide proxy to proxy with programs.
 
Generally you can do an IP ban. Although yes that can be circumvented to, it just takes more effort on their part to get a new IP.

Without grabbing more verifiable personal information, that is about all we can do.

Well it's not that hard really. Opera offers a VPN service in-built within the browser. Then there are - legal - programs you can download too. VPNs effectively mask your local IP so it's impossible for sites like A-P to distinguish where the traffic originally came from.

All you could do in that situation is keep banning the different IPs that person signs up with.
 
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