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Lardmonster
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Re: Young Yorkies in "City Chat" and "General Chat"
Laurence and I have both tried - unsuccessfully - to curb the posting habits of some Young Yorkies in other parts of the forum.
As there's been no noticable change, we'll soon be restricting some people to the Young Yorkies part of the forum.
If I knew how to do it, I'd do it now. But I don't, so it'll have to wait to Laurence to next log in
I hope this'll reduce (1) the amount of dross in City Chat (2) the amount of agro received by those Young Yorkies and (3) the amount of agro received by me.
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Ivan Dobsky
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Good plan. Glad to see something is being done.
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| Ivan Dobsky wrote: |
| Good plan. Glad to see something is being done. |
Good plan, seconded, hopefully some normality can return to this forum. Whats the posting limit 1 or 2? 3 Would be just too many. As someone else somewhere else once said now we have 2 poor forums instead of 1 great one.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| SMP wrote: |
| Ivan Dobsky wrote: |
| Good plan. Glad to see something is being done. |
Good plan, seconded, hopefully some normality can return to this forum. Whats the posting limit 1 or 2? 3 Would be just too many. As someone else somewhere else once said now we have 2 poor forums instead of 1 great one.
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Anything to stop the tittle tattle drivel that is posted endlessly ruining many threads
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Dynamo Kebab
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Just close the offenders accounts.
Dross in CC = Dross in GC = Dross in YY = Dross on this Forum.
Very often the simplest and easiest solution is the best one. |
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SMP
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Dynamo Kebab wrote: |
Just close the offenders accounts.
Dross in CC = Dross in GC = Dross in YY = Dross on this Forum.
Very often the simplest and easiest solution is the best one. |
I know on some message forums peoples IP address can be blocked.
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Jeremy Jacob
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| SMP wrote: |
| Dynamo Kebab wrote: |
Just close the offenders accounts.
Dross in CC = Dross in GC = Dross in YY = Dross on this Forum.
Very often the simplest and easiest solution is the best one. |
I know on some message forums peoples IP address can be blocked.
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IP addresses can be blocked on this forum, too. But some people have many IP addresses, and some IP addresses belong to many people, so it is not a very good way of achieving a ban.
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Ivan Dobsky
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Maybe we need to accept the decision of the Administrators and see how it pans out from there. I am willing to see how this solution works before calling for out and out bans.
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JQW
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Young Yorkies in "City Chat" and "General |
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| Lardmonster wrote: |
If I knew how to do it, I'd do it now. But I don't, so it'll have to wait to Laurence to next log in
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With an un-modded phpBB board I don't believe that this can easily be done. You can set a section to restricted, but the downside is that users don't have access by default. A few changes to the board software could fix this, though. I run another board running the same software, so I know what I'm on about.
Ban them for good - it works! You can't easily ban based on IP address due to various issues. Most IP addresses via DSL and dial-up accounts are transient, so they change on every reboot. Others may be the IP address of a proxy server, so banning that IP will ban all users of the same ISP. They're only effective if the person concerned always posts from the same work IP address.
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oniongravy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I know it can be done because it's done before. As soon as we speak to Laurence, we'll be on the case. |
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Lardmonster
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: Young Yorkies in "City Chat" and "General |
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| Jethro Q Walrustitty wrote: |
| With an un-modded phpBB board I don't believe that this can easily be done. |
I couldn't find anything to do that, but my admin knowledge is limited.
| Jethro Q Walrustitty wrote: |
| Ban them for good - it works! You can't easily ban based on IP address due to various issues. |
True. It'd work in some cases, but by no means all. (For example, I post from two fixed IP addresses, so could be easily banned)
Banning people for good doesn't stop them re-registering, as we've seen time and time again with The Idiot Batchelor.
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| I know it can be done because it's done before. As soon as we speak to Laurence, we'll be on the case. |
Yes, people have been restricted before, but I don't know whether the forum itself was used to enforce the ban.
It could be that we have to tell those posters "Do not post in City Chat. The moderators will delete without warning all posts they find".
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Lord Winston
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| I think it will be an honest easy way if someone disables my account again, i think im too old for young yorkies and well im sick of being singled out, so if possible could lardmonster delete my account. |
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Dynamo Kebab
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| Please Lardy, do it NOW!!! |
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Walwyn
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| Lord Winston wrote: |
| I think it will be an honest easy way if someone disables my account again, i think im too old for young yorkies and well im sick of being singled out, so if possible could lardmonster delete my account. |
Have you got obsessive compulsive disorder or something? Are you not in control of your hands at the keyboard? Youre asking someone to delete your account. Why not just stop posting these messages that irritate people?? Show some self control!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:00 am Post subject: Re: Young Yorkies in "City Chat" and "General |
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| Lardmonster wrote: |
Re: Young Yorkies in "City Chat" and "General Chat"
Laurence and I have both tried - unsuccessfully - to curb the posting habits of some Young Yorkies in other parts of the forum.
As there's been no noticable change, we'll soon be restricting some people to the Young Yorkies part of the forum.If I knew how to do it, I'd do it now. But I don't, so it'll have to wait to Laurence to next log in
I hope this'll reduce (1) the amount of dross in City Chat (2) the amount of agro received by those Young Yorkies and (3) the amount of agro received by me.
Matthew |
For crying out loud learn some lessons. Please.
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Jeremy Jacob
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Walwyn wrote: |
| Lord Winston wrote: |
| I think it will be an honest easy way if someone disables my account again, i think im too old for young yorkies and well im sick of being singled out, so if possible could lardmonster delete my account. |
Have you got obsessive compulsive disorder or something? Are you not in control of your hands at the keyboard? Youre asking someone to delete your account. Why not just stop posting these messages that irritate people?? Show some self control!
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I think that you are close to the truth, there.
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