mort Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 They aren't allowed here. Only trolls have them. This is not the case, we do allow users to have a business account providing they contact the helpdesk before creating that account. We also have the facility for posting anonymously via the 'dear forum' account. To do that you must contact a moderator or admin who will discuss it with you in confidence. ---------- Post added 21-02-2014 at 00:42 ---------- Bickering removed. If you cannot behave like reasonable adults I will be happy to issue suspensions until such time as you can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberleaf808 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Did several people just confess to having multiple accounts, clearly against the forum rules? 100% Correct but how can the forum stop it? That's any forum / chat room. ---------- Post added 21-02-2014 at 01:00 ---------- Forget proxy for a mo. Think about this . black and white. One home family of 4 all join a forum. They connect to one router. Router allocates an IP for each family member. Each IP can be changed manually. So banning IP don't work. So forum goes for MAC add. The user then change the network card new mac add. ETC ETC. without going into detail any forum chat room will have a problem banning anyone that wants access to it. Multiple accounts or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The opening post looks like troll bait in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The opening post looks like troll bait in itself. Not really, it's just a quote from an article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 The opening post looks like troll bait in itself. It's a reference to a piece of legitimate academic research - what is there about it which makes you think it's a trolling exercise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 It's a reference to a piece of legitimate academic research - what is there about it which makes you think it's a trolling exercise? The fact it was posted by you, the biggest troll on this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 I dunno, the op with the article seemed like he was trolling trolls, hehe :-) That aside, the paper and the Canadians apparently don't know the difference between trolling, and bullying. Both completely different. The fact that they don't even know that what they are researching IS bullying and not trolling, makes it lose all credibility. Most of the time, the bullying that goes on, places such as facebook etc are people they know in real life, such as in school. It is quite worrying that bullying in schools is being looked over altogether. To add: why don't they research bullies in general? are they sadists and psychos too? the people want to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 100% Correct but how can the forum stop it? That's any forum / chat room. ---------- Post added 21-02-2014 at 01:00 ---------- Forget proxy for a mo. Think about this . black and white. One home family of 4 all join a forum. They connect to one router. Router allocates an IP for each family member. Each IP can be changed manually. So banning IP don't work. So forum goes for MAC add. The user then change the network card new mac add. ETC ETC. without going into detail any forum chat room will have a problem banning anyone that wants access to it. Multiple accounts or not. MAC addresses are not visible across the internet so that's a non starter anyway. As you say it's also not possible with IP as people can share IP addresses, and then there are dynamically allocated addresses for things like mobile dongles, phones, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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