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Old 03-22-2012, 10:29 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by kirant View Post
How's he sending the e-mails? I'd think with vBulliten, you can IP ban or something...
You can, though one has to be careful with that as you don't want to ban contributing members as well and sometimes IPs are either shared (especially now with lots of mobile browsers) or they do change sometimes and there have been times when some new person randomly gets a previously banned IP.

IP addresses are becoming less useful for that kind of thing in the past few years.

I sometimes wonder if it would be a good thing to have a drastic change where real identity became part of membership.. either requiring a tie-in of a facebook account, or requiring a verification of a mobile phone # as part of registration, or some such.

Or maybe allow anonymous membership, but "verified" members get something extra, like the ability to up/downvote posts or something like that.

But that might be too drastic a change and might cut down membership but an order of magnitude

Anyway, I ramble...

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Originally Posted by Phanuthier View Post
I see puckluck is banned now. I'm nosy... why?
The same reason anyone gets banned, not following the rules well enough
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