If you are caught creating multiple accounts to vote on polls you will recieve a ....

[speedracer]

1 week ban.

I can't help but wonder if that's a rule that was put in place in response to a real situation. I thought I'd ask. I've been laughing about it all morning.

[bobbylien]

I believe its been there since the beginning.

[Labrocca]

Yes ...it's an original rule. As a matter of fact all of the rules have been in place since day 1. The only changes are the amendments which are clarifications on how we implement the rules. Expect another amendment soon.

[Professor]

1 week ban.

I can't help but wonder if that's a rule that was put in place in response to a real situation. I thought I'd ask. I've been laughing about it all morning.


I thought that rule a bit silly too, more because I wondered who would be that petty. But I am sure someone would.


Expect another amendment soon.


Oooh the suspense, it's killing me.

[Stoner]

Why would someone want to create a second account just to vote on a poll?

[Pookie]

I wish we could have second accounts. Look at rule #9. I have a neighbor who uses my computer often and wants to be here but can't. I would have no use for such silliness as a second account but I sure wish my neighbor could use my puter to post here. She's looks over my shoulder here a LOT and loves this site.
Purrs,

[Cobra]

Bet they could work that out for you if you talked to Lab.

Most forums allow it if it's two people from the same household that wish to both post.

[firefox]

Lab, no offense, but you do realize that your rule is entirely unenforceable, right? For all we know, PirateMonkey is still here, and there's no way to tell if he uses different IPs, etc.

[Buck Laser]

Lab, no offense, but you do realize that your rule is entirely unenforceable, right? For all we know, PirateMonkey is still here, and there's no way to tell if he uses different IPs, etc.

I think IPs are geographically assigned, so a different IP within the same community wouldn't do much good. I had an attempt at ID theft last year, and we tracked it via monitoring the IP address.On the other hand, creating a sock puppet here would serve no useful purpose. Nevertheless, when I'm going to be traveling and expect to log on to one of the forums I frequent, I notify the administrator in advance just for the halibut.

[BoogyMan]

Lab, no offense, but you do realize that your rule is entirely unenforceable, right? For all we know, PirateMonkey is still here, and there's no way to tell if he uses different IPs, etc.

I think IPs are geographically assigned, so a different IP within the same community wouldn't do much good. I had an attempt at ID theft last year, and we tracked it via monitoring the IP address.On the other hand, creating a sock puppet here would serve no useful purpose. Nevertheless, when I'm going to be traveling and expect to log on to one of the forums I frequent, I notify the administrator in advance just for the halibut.


Hi Buck,

IP address assignment is done in blocks, and depending upon the network design of the service provider a single netblock could serve subnets in many different cities or countries.

I manage a network that has a single class C netblock for it's intra-router interfaces whose endpoints span the country and use RFC private addresses behind firewalls at each end. Having said this the point is that IP addresses are assigned by netblock to a single company or ISP, but where communications originate from them is wholly dependant upon the ability to document the topology of the client network.

[firefox]

As I've mentioned before, I use an anonymous proxy for privacy protection, thus none of you all know where I really am. However, the IP rarely changes, as far as I know (check with www.megaproxy.com to verify if you need to). If I was really paranoid, I would use Tor, but it is slow as hell for forums especially- I only use that when I'm dealing with sensitive information on an irregular basis. I will say that it's great for e-mail and IM use, because less data is being passed around through the network.

BoogyMan: Are you familiar with/have you ever done the secret DNS broadcast message thing? If you know how to do it, it's possible to send very short plaintext messages within DNS request headers. It has been done experimentally, and it could be useful in some kind of extreme life-or-death situation where the message MUST get out, and everything is blocked via the firewall.

[BoogyMan]

BoogyMan: Are you familiar with/have you ever done the secret DNS broadcast message thing? If you know how to do it, it's possible to send very short plaintext messages within DNS request headers. It has been done experimentally, and it could be useful in some kind of extreme life-or-death situation where the message MUST get out, and everything is blocked via the firewall.

Hi Firefox, I am not sure exactly what you are talking about when you speak of a secret DNS broadcast. DNS is essentially a targetted unicast service. By broadcast, which by definition typically doesn't pass the layer 3 boundary of your network, are you referring simply to a communication?

I have heard of DNS payload modification and DoS attacks based on such activity, but not using DNS as a message delivery mechanism.