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Originally Posted by Videx

I didn't say it "wasn't right". I said most of the trips are not miscreants and shouldn't be banned. The few rare ones should be dealt with on an individual basis.

I mean, if a husband and wife trip, why the heck would you want to ban both of them???

You must of have a pretty quiet forum, in my case is never a husband and wife case or sisters playing around with the same computer issue but people who wants to have three, four and houndreds of nicks if allowed to, and believe me, usually the multiple registration comes from pain in the ass members who does that to, for instance, send bad messages about your site or the administration to members by PM, lies, to poison your members, to sell stuffs, envy people, shits happens, oh well, i'll rather have some sort of protection, even when people who knows forums and computer can relatively easy avoid been caught.

I dont want to have five memberships from the same person, I do allow guest to post so a nick per person is good enough; if they want to "talk" anonymously they better log out and post as a guest, the system won't trigger anything b/c I don't have it set to tell me about the guests (usergroup) but members.

I guess it is a matter of what kind of forum we do have and how strict or not we wanted to be, how manageable, I do appreciated this mod a lot, it has worked for me 99% of the time, some people have even dared as to ask me why XXX nick is not working, when I ask them (sometimes not 100% sure myself and waiting for an angry reaction) to pick one of their multiple nicks XXX, YYY or ZZZ they always reply with an "oh sorry, didn't know, yeah, i want YYY, thanks". Meaning the mod was right, they could of registered multiple nicks on the first place, yes, who knows they did it probably while on vacation, from their cousin's, or they are flight attendants every day a different city you know, but at the end of the day they will comeback to the same old computer and the system will trigger their accounts. If all of their accounts were allow to "talk" bc they weren't shared the same computer at the time, a nice solution will be merge those accounts if the owner agrees to (they ussualy don't) A great solution to me is to send those who triggers the mod to a Waiting for Moderation mod; the second, third, whatever number nick cannot post, if they are ligitimate (or stupid enough) they will contact you, the forum allows them to send PM's even though they can't post or they can always send the webmaster or the admin an email.

Thanks to this mod I don't have 4348948549583 inactive members, you know, those who register a nick, post an embarrassing sexual question and go back to the usual "i'm so nice" nick and forget for all eternity the new one but people that rather actually comes to the site to participate and I'm not expert, I don't know if the member's table will be affected by how many members a site have or not. Allowing guests to participate in my site has been a blessing, they are manageable (you have them at one click away) and people can "hide" their identities if an embarrasing situation arises but most people use their account since it has so many perks that guest don't have. To me is a great mod, of course, nothing is perfect and 3.7 to me is not as stable as 3.6, Iv seen vbulletin is on version 3.8 already w/o some 3.7 stuffs been addressed, kind of a rush if you ask me but for the most part 3.7 and this mod worked fine. I have to say, however that I don't ban those who triggers the multiple registration, they can still post with their original nicks but their "multiples" well, I place them in quarantine and after a while I clean the Waiting for moderation list, which I only use for that, people in my site can registered and begin to participate; so the people on the Waiting list is people who, in fact, triggered the multiple registration mod, lol.

BTW. Yeah I guess it has nothing to do w/ IP's since my Secret Agent (LOL) "shared" the same IP with half of my forum (the people that report a post) and with all the people who has registered multiple nicks, go figure. You can see that under Members and Find IP's or some like that, you enter an IP ramdomly taked and you will see sometimes is shared with your spy nick, the one you use to report to your "secret admin only forum" At least I do have one, I can't stand to have a PM everytime somebody says a bad word and it is reported or everytime a moron registered his fifth nick of the month.