Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
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May 24, 2016 at 6:29 am
(May 24, 2016 at 6:26 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I didn't know you could get banned for using a proxy. Good to know. Certainly not without staff asking you first why you are using one.
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May 24, 2016 at 6:31 am
Well, not just for using a proxy per se. There were a lot of separate elements combined, the proxy thing was one part of it. If she had given us a convincing reason that it was for a genuine purpose, then fine. We'd likely have got her on the trolling alone. She simply made it a bit easier.
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May 24, 2016 at 6:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2016 at 6:44 am by SteelCurtain.)
Yeah, there were several things behind the scenes that added to the toll, but if you hide your IP as a new user who is also trolling hard, then you don't give an adequate reason why you were using two different confirmed proxies in a matter or hours...that's a count.
If a tenured member were to state using a proxy, we'd not only likely never notice, but we wouldn't care even if we did notice. It only disrupts forum functionality when we need to cross check your true IP against existing members.
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May 24, 2016 at 7:09 am
That's good to know guys ...
Sometimes, I forget I'm connected to my vpn while *you know* hodor hodor ... and connect here at the same time without issue.
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May 24, 2016 at 8:04 am
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May 24, 2016 at 8:06 am
Using a proxy is only against the rules so far as when it disrupts the staff's ability to do their job. She wasn't banned for using a proxy, she was banned for trolling and disrupting forum functionality by using a proxy.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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May 24, 2016 at 8:20 am
Somebody had better answer that damn phone...
BECAUSE I FUCKING CALLED IT!
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May 24, 2016 at 8:25 am
(May 24, 2016 at 8:06 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Using a proxy is only against the rules so far as when it disrupts the staff's ability to do their job. She wasn't banned for using a proxy, she was banned for trolling and disrupting forum functionality by using a proxy. Come now... you don't disrupt forum functionality BY using a proxy. We even have a nice list with examples of how you can disrupt forum functionality: Quote:Disrupting Forum Functionality It is true that I've been seeing a lot of errors, today, due to server overload.... so, maybe, now, someone is disrupting forum functionality.... but those need not be members...  RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 24, 2016 at 8:32 am
It disrupts the staff's functionality because we can't properly compare the IP address to other members, when we have a good reason to do so.
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May 24, 2016 at 8:38 am
(May 24, 2016 at 8:32 am)robvalue Wrote: It disrupts the staff's functionality because we can't properly compare the IP address to other members, when we have a good reason to do so. Well then... you must use some other means of ascertaining sock-puppetry. Sometimes, it's easy... sometimes, not so... c'est la vie. I'd rather live with a sock behind a proxy, than impose that everyone who chooses to use one must have a damn good reason to use it. |
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