So what's the point. I have been running into those forums a few times lately and it annoys the hell out of me. Today I come across some excuse that it keeps banned members from the boards. WTF they've never heard of blocking IP-addresses? And what annoys me more is that this forum that uses this rule is from a company, like those people get paid for managing the forums. How hard is it to ban someone again, like everyone goes re-registering a thousand times cause it so much fun and worth the trouble waiting for activation mails and the like. I don't care if they want to keep that as a rule to keep those from the board but why include the search function in it. I'm a paying customer and I deserve the support of at least searching for the soldution to my probably easy problem/question. This con is like nearly outweighing the pro NVidia has for supporting linux with their drivers.

(RANT)
So excuse the (hmm there must be a nicer way to write this, at least I have to find one for my complaint email) out of me for being 17 years old and not having a real emailaddress I have to pay for. Do I deserve less service cause of some (and I doubt there are many) abusing this stuff.
(/RANT)

I see I've just found a way around this. Like if you're going to try blocking this stuff block mail forwarding as well. pwned.

What do you think of this? (edit blocking certain email domains.)

[ 06-29-2004, 11:46 AM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

It doesn't work. I used to play Graal online when it was free, and couldn't use my hotmail account to register. I just got a new adress from a more obscure free email service.

You use webbased e-mail?! Stone him! ;)

Well since I have never and probably will never use a webbased email I couldn't care less... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I believe Fok!forum uses/used that same method [img]smile.gif[/img]

Erm... I registered using a Hotmail account, I guess before that rule came into effect. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Anyhow, it's quite easy to circumvent an IP block. Which is possibly why they're banned.

Just to clarify his post, Ironworks does NOT do this. We allow any email address for registering.

Phillip, I am editing your title, it comes off as if you're talking about IW. ;)

Sorry, it looks better now [img]smile.gif[/img]

I know it's easy to go around IP-blocking but the people who do it can be banned again. What's the fun in having to activate forum accounts again and again to just cause a little trouble. And isn't it always possible to see if it's the same user? On another forum we had such a troublemaker and he came back three times and every time the mods had been able to get his real IP back (the one he used when he first registered) making sure he was the same.

I understand some forums do this, one I know was Gathering of Tweakers, cause they're someone's hobby (I think that's the case for GoT) but for a commercial company I think it's bad. Like if there are no problems anymore with the combination NWN+ATI and ATI+Linux I know my next video card won't be an Nvidia anymore but ATI (or possible some other brand)