[wp-forums] B'coded user

[Mika A Epstein]

There's no way to know that it's 'one person' either. IP addresses change, and so on.

I'm going to email this guy and see what comes of it.


On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Charles Frees-Melvin <charles.freesmelvin at me.com> wrote:

> Not only would that be impossible there are some installations that have multiple people between authors and admins. We would not want to limit the use of forums to only admins.
> 
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> On 2012-06-06, at 11:29, Francisco de Azevedo <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> While reading this thread, I was thinking how much of a pain in the
>> buttocks it must be (mainly for mods and staff) for users to be able create
>> a zillion user accounts and keep jumping from one to the other like Super
>> Mario, ;-)
>> Have you considered the possibility of only allowing one forum account per
>> WP installation? It seems to me it would solve a lot of problems on the
>> forums.
>> Just a thought.
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> Marv
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> The user in question keeps apparently creating new accounts. Or someone has
>>> the same IP address and same ESL issues which I suppose is possible, but I
>>> think a little unlikely...
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/mukesh27****
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/meky****
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/pncl****
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/meky_p****
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/jaan007****
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/j27aan****
>>> He thinks he's blocked, but he's just b-code'ed and seems to want his old
>>> account deleted.
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/account-3?replies=16
>>> 
>>> And of course, it's been explained that accounts are not deleted.
>>> 
>>> If he wants to abandon his old account, then that is fine, but he should
>>> stick with one. If he's creating accounts to get around the b-code tag,
>>> then that's not cool.
>>> 
>>> He's been b-coded due to requesting Skype ID's which the user has done 9
>>> times out of his 239 posts (yes, i was bored the other day too and had some
>>> downtime...) and has been cautioned about at least once.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-center-images-in-column?replies=16#post-2824430
>>> 
>>> If the user would just play nicely, then I'm sure he'd get out of the
>>> Timeout Corner. But serial account creation sure isn't helping.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jan Dembowski
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Poster: <http://wordpress.org/support/**profile/mukesh27<
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/mukesh27>
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> First came across <http://wordpress.org/support/**
>>>> topic/category-page-not-quite-**right<
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-page-not-quite-right>
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Then a few minutes later, came across <http://wordpress.org/support/**
>>>> topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-**lightbox-images-showing-twice<
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-lightbox-images-showing-twice
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I suspect the first request for a skype id was by email only.
>>>> 
>>>> Have b'coded him for the time being.
>>>> 
>>>> Mel
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