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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on October 19, 2005, 03:13:08 AM
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How do I go about reporting someone to their ISP?
You remember a long time ago when I had a problem with someone on my show\'s forum and I had you guys look up info on him.. Well this same guy I have now banned again and he is being a real pain in the ass. He had a ton of aliases which I have banned. Numerous IP addresses which I have blocked, but now he is supposedly getting his buddies and going to start blasting porn on the site.
Just childish crap.
What can I do?
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As for reporting him, you\'ll need screenshots of offending material, showing the logged IP number, date & time. If he\'s used an ISP email address, include that.
If you have access to his IP number, which you clearly do, run it through an IP tracing site, it will list an email address to report abuse, something like abuse@theirsite.com.
Contact them, enquire into what you need to supply to report him for abuse, tell them the evidence you have already got, and take it from there.
As for nipping it in the bud on your forums, I\'d suggest changing registration to admin validating.
You could also cut out email addresses like hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc like we do here.
Any new addresses that are used for mass registering, stick them on the banned emails list and try to force them to use their real email addresses, that way, you\'ll have more chance of reporting them. If they use their ISP provided email to register & cause shit, you\'ll have them by the bollocks.
You could also create a holding group, where the people in that group only get promoted to the proper member group for real after X ammount of posts, all posts they make before that in that holding group, will have to be moderated first.
It will be a pain in the arse if you have lot of posts to sift through each day, but that way, you\'ll get an idea of who\'s likely to start shit as soon as they register.
When the message sinks in that they have to register, get validated, go through the holding group where their first 50-100 posts are subject to validation before they even get a chance to fuck about, they\'ll probably think it\'s not worth bothering.
Then, after a few months of this, when it\'s quietened down, you can lower the defences a bit.
Like I said, it would take a shit load of moderating to deal with the validation-pending posts, but if you are really desperate to cut it out, it might be your only choice.
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THanks for the help.
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my favorite is to make a user group which only that person can see his own posts
that way, they go a few weeks posting whatever they like without realizing noone can see it
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Yeah. I actually found that it\'s part of the software for vbulletin now where I jus tput the guy\'s username in. Don\'t have to create a usergroup for it.
Although I guess I could.
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Originally posted by mm
my favorite is to make a user group which only that person can see his own posts
that way, they go a few weeks posting whatever they like without realizing noone can see it
lol great idea
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Yeah, we\'ve done it to you several times.
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omg, you weren\'t supposed to tell him!
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:laughing:
*realises noone can see this post* :(
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dude i freakin swear its been done to me here atleast once :(
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Just once?
:D
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It\'s probably happened to me on occassion, but only an admin/mod would know.