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Death Mage
Raving Lunatic
PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:05 am    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote
If we're going to have shit like this come up, where people anonymously post as other people's user names but with the little * behind as a "joke" or whatever that gets other users ticked off at something the REAL user did not say, it's time to shut down this unregistered posting. Seriously, is it THAT hard to fucking log in?
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Antrax
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:10 am    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote
I don't see how that solves the problem. What stops the same person from registering "death mage*" and then posting as it?
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Death Mage
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:47 am    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote
The fact that they have to go through registration? That and I believe creating an account specifically to spoof someone else like that is a breach in TOS, or if not, should be.

That and it would be far more obviously a fake if there weren't a bunch of other people out there using their name and a * after.
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Samadhi
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:56 am    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote
I don't think that many people don't notice that it's fake.

Are you really that upset that aaron was fooled?
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worm
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:58 am    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote
Death Mage wrote:
The fact that they have to go through registration? That and I believe creating an account specifically to spoof someone else like that is a breach in TOS, or if not, should be.

have you ever looked through the member list? users have been creating accounts to spoof others for years...i don't remember a malicious example. you might disagree and think the one you linked was malicious, but c'mon it's not like you've never posted stuff a lot like your impostor's post, and if you take the travis*, death mage*, pablo* posts together, it's pretty funny.

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That and it would be far more obviously a fake if there weren't a bunch of other people out there using their name and a * after.

i dunno, when i see a bunch of posters with asterisks after their name, i tend to think something's up.

and i guess it goes without saying, i don't like the idea of blocking unregistered posting you freakin' nazi.

sorry that just slipped out.
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Samadhi
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:21 am    Post subject: 6 Reply with quote
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and i guess it goes without saying, i don't like the idea of blocking unregistered posting you freakin' nazi.

I know you meant this as hyperbole, but it's not far off the mark. The asterisk was implemented to accommodate specific user requests (including many well known and established users) that they be able to post without logging in. There was a lot of discussion and this is the solution that was found to meet (mostly) everyone's needs.

IIRC, the discussion included the possibility of posts like the ones DM links to. And the best answer is that, if you're concerned about that, don't post "anonymously." Which DM doesn't (neither do I, except for perhaps 4 posts I've made using computers in the SDSU library), so....IMO, this is really not an issue. No offense, DM.
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Antrax
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:30 am    Post subject: 7 Reply with quote
Well, this is an issue, but blocking unregistered posting is too high a price to pay, IMO. If the spoofing becomes offensive, I'm sure if DM will request it'll stop. And if it doesn't, or if it's malicious, I have plenty of tools to find out who's doing it and handle it forcefully, if need be. So, I think handling the malicious cases on a case-by-case basis is a better solution than just blocking all unregistered posting.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:18 pm    Post subject: 8 Reply with quote
worm wrote:
and i guess it goes without saying, i don't like the idea of blocking unregistered posting you freakin' nazi.
Did you mean Nazi or Nazi*?
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ShadowSword
Busted!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:20 am    Post subject: 9 Reply with quote
Yea so lately I have been posting without signing in and now when I try to come to the site my browser says a timeout error or whatever has occurred because it was taking too long. So apparently I've been banned but I can still come on by using my wireless. So if I could be unbanned that would be nice, thanks.
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Samadhi
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:15 am    Post subject: 10 Reply with quote
Actually you've got that backwards. If you were banned, you'd get an immediate rejection. It's only users in good standing that get the timeout error.
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ShadowSword
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:56 pm    Post subject: 11 Reply with quote
Well I'm using my college's internet because well I live at college and my roommate can get to the site through his Ethernet cable and I can't.
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