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  1. Speaking about IP bans, don't IPs change sometimes for people? If so how does an IP ban do its job?

    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:17:06 UTC from web
    1. @techdisk42 In that case, it doesn't. :p

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:17:27 UTC from web
      1. @minti ah

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:19:11 UTC from web
      2. @minti cause I know my public IP changes whenever I restart my modem. So...

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:21:55 UTC from web
        1. @techdisk42 Yeah mine too. Dynamic IPs are the bane of any web-based banning system cause it's literally unavoidable without masking it.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:23:14 UTC from web
          1. @minti why do we even bother...

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:25:03 UTC from web
          2. @minti I almost want to include some tiny flash object on the page to capture peoples MAC addresses and pass them to PHP so I can have a full ban experience

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:26:06 UTC from web
            1. @ceruleanspark but I know how to spoof that too... its harder, but still.

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:28:00 UTC from web
              1. @techdisk42 @purple The troublemakers we get here aren't hardened /b/tard raiders or network experts. They're typically butthurt children mad that we have rules and staff who enforce them.

                Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:29:49 UTC from web
            2. @ceruleanspark Can Flash even capture mac addresses? If so, that's.. kinda scary.

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:28:12 UTC from web
              1. @minti Flash can do a hell of a lot of stuff you might well think shouldn't be accessible from browsers.

                Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:29:12 UTC from web
                1. @bitshift Eh. Surprising.

                  Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:33:56 UTC from web
              2. @minti How do you think Habbo Hotel permabans /b/tards?

                Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:31:41 UTC from web
                1. @ceruleanspark By having actually active moderators, unlike most games? *shrug*

                  Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:34:13 UTC from web
                  1. @minti How do you think they made the bans /stick/? They have a tier of ban that is maintained even if you /switch OSes within the same machine/

                    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:35:15 UTC from web
                    1. @ceruleanspark Weird, either masking or hwid banning could do that.

                      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:36:27 UTC from web
            3. @ceruleanspark besides. *disables flash*

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:28:55 UTC from web
              1. @techdisk42 I'm sure there's something you can do, like causing the flash to populate a hidden field that's required for the message form to submit specifically to spite iOS users and flashblockers.

                Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:31:24 UTC from web
                1. @ceruleanspark well that would just plain suck.

                  Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:33:11 UTC from web
                2. @ceruleanspark well that would just plain suck.

                  Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:34:53 UTC from web
                  1. @techdisk42 Fortunately we don't really have enough persistent troublemakers to make that worth the effort it'd take to implement.

                    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 00:37:04 UTC from web