Well yes, good point
I mean - and again, am unaware of the process, and shit with all forms of IT - say they delete his account, obviously he can just create another one and carry on. Or is it done by IP address or some such?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:09, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

It's all done with voodoo mind control.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Yeah, I thought it'd be something like that

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:12, Reply)

IP banning is an imprecise science.
You come into a site from an IP range, your actual address as far as the site sees it is actually an address within the range your ISP uses. You remember Bou? In order to get rid of her permanently they had to block the entire IP range of South Africa because she kept getting in via a different IP.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:12, Reply)

They also seem to be having fun deciding what to do with Frank over on /talk.
His current incarnation is sandboxed there, but appears to be allowed to post everywhere else.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:13, Reply)

Bou was before my time but I've heard the tale
So how exactly do they propose to get rid of Battered if he misbehaves again? They delete his account, he creates a new one. Called, I dunno, Batt3red.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:18, Reply)

If they decide to IP ban him, they'll have to either have a way of tracking
which IPs each accounts have logged in from and ban those, or ban an entire range. In the latter case anyone who happens to be in that range will be unable to reach the site.

They're more likely to just ban individual accounts if they come from Battered's IP range than do an outright IP ban, at least to begin with.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:21, Reply)

Yeah I assumed something similar
but he's got an iPad, presumably a home laptop as well as whatever he "works" off, same as the rest of us. Although I suppose a ban on one of them, if they could manage it, would at least narrow down his options.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:24, Reply)

If he's on an iPad connecting over his home or work connections
it'd still come from the same IP range as his computer.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:25, Reply)

Oh yeah
Sorry, I need these things pointing out to me. I'll be happy to return the favour if you ever want to know anything about football, or very specific periods of history
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:27, Reply)

IP block would only work for a home or work address
Right now I'm on my phone using Opera Mini, which routes via servers in Sweden or somewhere which compress the data to save my 3G being used up, so what IP that comes up as is anyone's guess.
For instance, it used to let me vote hundreds of times in polls by shutting it down and opening it again, although that seems to have stopped working, pity as it made the "worst person on b3ta" poll most amusing.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:20, Reply)

I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting.

( Kroney, Thu 3 Jan 2013, 10:24, Reply)