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Old 10-11-2005, 11:53 PM
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I wonder if anyone could offer a techinical solution to disappearing a member of my board.

My board has a policy of no permenant bans, except in the case of hacking, and so I'm in an annoying position of wanting to get rid of someone. It's fair to say they are a pain in the whatsit, and I'm sure people could understand my situation.

Anyhow, in order to disappear someone, what steps should I take? I don't want it to be public knowledge that they've been banned.

* First of all I'll give them a banned usergroup that gives them the apperance in the post bit of a normal user except being banned. Sorted.
* Next I ban their IP of course. I may use my servercp to be extra sure
* Chat will be a problem, I can ban a bunch of usernames and IPs, but they could be cleared by another chatop

Basically I can't do it. Is there a 'supercookie' whereby I can have their machine not access my site, even after the standard clearing of cookies? Hmmm...
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Old 10-12-2005, 12:37 AM
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Just ban their IP from server.
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Old 10-12-2005, 12:38 AM
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Yeah, but dynamic IPs y'know?

If they return even once and say 'I was banned just like that!' I will be undone
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Old 10-12-2005, 12:56 AM
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Banning IPs doesn't help much, as well as banning eMail - too many free mail providers out there.
Best thing to do IMHO: Change policy, ban their account.
If they return, ban it again.
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Old 10-12-2005, 02:05 AM
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Yeah you dug your ditch and now you have to lay in it.
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Old 10-12-2005, 02:13 AM
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Banning IPs doesn't help much, as well as banning eMail - too many free mail providers out there.
Best thing to do IMHO: Change policy, ban their account.
If they return, ban it again.
Changing policy isn't going to happen, very few staff or posters will support me.
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Old 10-12-2005, 02:15 AM
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yeh, these people now a days are not stupid. They just use Proxy and Free emails to keep registering even with a static IP.

There's no way your going to ban him and keep it quite, people will either ask were he's gone. or more likely he'll come back using a proxy and just posts telling everybody he was banned when your not there.
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Old 10-12-2005, 04:14 AM
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Maybe you could start a poll for doing this special exception?
Or just do a tempban for s 100 years? :ninja:
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Old 10-12-2005, 04:21 AM
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Changing policy isn't going to happen, very few staff or posters will support me.
Does this staff and group of posters pay the bill for your domain, hosting, and license, or do you?
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miserable user option but in stealth mode hehe
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