Prevent multiple registrations
 

I have some users on my board that create 10 user accounts and use them all to give points to eachother talk to eachother etc. I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that an IP may only register 1 account. I have email activation on but they just keep registering hotmail and Yahoo addrtesses and I dont want to ban those because we would lose alot of users.

Please help, thank you

Start banning members who do it. That'll send a message to people who keep trying it.

I do, but some people have dialup so it is harder to ban them without banning others as well.

Also it is hard to scan every user who joins, I just find the obvious ones

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heh quite a predicament, i'm sure we've all seen some of those members around, you can always just stop new registrations, or put new members under moderation before you allow them member access to the boards

yeah but thats a real pain and it is not worth it.

I dont mean to sound rude, but I dont really want alternitaves. If someone can make this hack I would be very thankful

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even with this hack you,ll get users on dial up connecting and disconnecting, not to mention in the uk bts asdl service is a dynamic ip aswell and that another even faster case of loggin on and off to achieve this annoyance

Rephrased: IP banning is inefficient.

So, your suggestion to overcome the problem is...