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Ghostsuit · #9 09-02-2004, 12:46 PM

Ip ban is not worth while specially if you have people using the same ISP.

I've had a few users that caused us endless problems like this. So here's how we dealt with it.

1. Friendly warning to start with
2. Straight forward warning
3. Temp Ban
4. Full Ban - they probably create a new account
5. Miserable users / Tachy
6. If they still persist then just delete any post (I mean any even the good ones) you see by them, don't mention the deletion don't give them any attention at all. If they try to contact you ignore them. The key is these people want attention by denying them the attention and deleting there posts they will eventually give up or start to play nice.

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