Before someone tells me that this doesn't correlate to Halo, I am inclined to remind you that this choice of action would improve the site 10-fold. Dennis, whether you're annoyed or not; im tired of logging on this site for updates on people's work and finding a wall of porn. 'Call it "preference". If you've noticed, whenever this guy is kicked from your site, a new account shows up. They start off making quips and incessantly referencing members that have left years in advanced, making it impossible for them to have met them on the site and have known them long enough to gather a lasting opinion on them. Then, they go bat**** crazy and spam everywhere, hinting that you know them and talking about coming back, seconds before yet another account is made. Solution: 86 the account registrations. Provide people existing on the site with your Xfire, email or phone if they 'forget' their login info. That way, we wont have any more of this nonsense on the site. You know where you can start with this? Delete Julia's account. That, or you can clean up yet another mess that Dsali makes. That's my doctrine. As for everyone else. Voice your opinions more often on these events. Dont antagonize the annoyance. Take it to Dennis. The previous sentence is my sole reason for making this public. This site's been active for years. It can survive without a few more greenhorns like me.

And you are a little troll pretending to have a brain

According to what AllySuzumiya said, i agree with him.. And a good solution to solve this problem is to close the registration to new users.. (Unless Dennis implements a new ban system, but that is impossible..)

IP bans only work for account registration. Banned IPs can still log in

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Don't you wish that new web browsers ran off of personal ID tags like PSN or xbox live...?
Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 27, 2013 at 02:18 PM

EDIT> What the hell kind of administrator pulls the only your fault for noticing card as an excuse to get out of administrating. This isn't a spambot, it's one person, and they're liable to punishment.
Edited by OrangeJuice on Jul 16, 2013 at 04:51 PM

Well, I knew Julie personally, and she was most definitely not a Salamander.

For someone who prides themselves on having all the solutions you have forgotten the obvious. Ignore spammers. Their sole purpose is to annoy others and cause them to start threads just like this. I can turn off registration and make this a closed forum but that is not the mission. It is designed to be open and as such spammers can and will enter the forum with absolutely no lasting effect other than their waste of time. Their importance is ONLY what you give to them and if you take the time to notice you will see that most of the other members of the forum have the same opinion of them as I do. Meaning that they are inconsequential and have no lasting effect and can easily be ignored.

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Edited by Nickster5000 on Jun 27, 2013 at 02:37 PM

Because you have the same IP Keith.

Play chess at all Dennis? You're good at checkmating people.

I am not smart enough for that. I am Just old.

Dennis caught you in his pincirs.

You could just make the new accounts to not be able to post in forums for like 10 days. In this way, it would take much longer for the troll to just spamm the forums. Then again they can make multiple accounts in that day but after banning them, they'll have to do more. Anyway who the hell would make more than.. lets say 10 new email accounts just to spamm the forum? That requirs serious lack of social life.

Or you can just limit accounts to how many posts they can make for the first 30 days & limit the amount of pictures they can embed in their posts.

New members must wait a week till they can embed pics

Why do that? If you do that, then new members who actually want to show something can't until a week. Besides, trolls and spammers could still always use links to the pictures instead of showing the pictures directly. How about do this instead.
Make something like a report as spam button next to the quote post, edit post, and reply to post tab, that pops up next to the members username and date posted tab. After a set amount of reports from different users from different IPs; (To prevent troll profiles.) it would then auto lock profiles (maybe something new you could add where it hides everything the person post. Sort of like banning, but you could unlock it and it would then place back the posts of the locked profile or something.) and send you a list of members who reported the profile and members response to the profiles action to cause them to report them. It would also show you the thread that they posted in with the hidden post by the profile, to make double sure about if it was a real report or a troll reporting a profile.

So pretty much.
-Report as spam button
-Auto profile locker after set amounts of reports from different users and user ip's ( It's supposed to be like banning but you could always unlock to reput in the pofiles posts and threads.)
-Report log from users who reported the profiles, and shows you the list of threads with the hidden posts.

Another option is to make it so there could be mini moderators (without full powers of a moderator)
Like they would only have the power to lock threads, and lock profiles. When they do, it would then send you a report log showing that they did that. Then whenever you get on and have the time, you could look at the report and see if it was worthy to be unlocked, left locked, or ban the profile completely.

I think these options would help out the forum much better then limiting new users to what they can say or can't say, or post when they want to post.
Edited by P3 on Jun 27, 2013 at 04:17 PM

I absolutely approve, the point is that Dennis is alone, and he can't keep everything under control every minute. More than one moderator should help, and the report function seems effective, but there is the risk that someone would abuse of it, so I wouldn't use an automatic profile locker.

I just got a similar message in reply to one of my comments. Such a gruesome display of mutilation under the username Murray. (I have the email as proof) But the comment does not show up in the thread anymore (thankfully)


Needless to say, I'm not suscribed to any threads now.

That's why i said it would send a report log to dennis. If he finds that the mini moderator is abusing his powers, he could unmod the mini moderator and lock the profile for a few days or weeks. Maybe even ban the profile.
Also by automatic profile locker, if you read everything i wrote, you would probably see what i mean. The autolocker only activates after a few reports from members who have different ips click the report post button.

I pride myself on having all the answers because I address problems in a way that caters to the majority or the just cause. "Ignore the spammer." Isn't an easy command, especially when said spam is in image format, taking up half the page. What if you wanted to go back through a thread? Are you telling me that I have to cycle through some pervert's porn collection? Why should I be punished for his displays of sexual promiscuity? Dennis, for someone who prides themselves off of minimalism and a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, you should understand that the user comes first. I'm not going to argue with you over this. I will say this; if you think the just action is to allow this to happen incessantly with our only provision being or ability to ignore it until you take appropriate action, you're no better than Salimander or Altheros. Let's keep in mind that you've put "ignoring" people to practice over 7 years ago. In fact, you've done a better job ignoring reason than you have ignoring spammers because at least when they spam, you feel inclined to take appropriate action. Unlike spammers, important issues will always be important. It is not subjective; it is universal. If I were viewing this in public, I could've been arrested for indecent exposure. Do you think they'll believe that I was using my iPod for a modding site for a game that's on a PC? They'll require proof. When they see that the only history I have is on Halomaps, they'll come after you. Do you still think it's subjective? This site has run longer than the original trilogy did. Shut down the registration for AT LEAST a month. Even in a position of authority, you need to realize that you are under the authority of the law.

Or you could just ignore the spammer and not make a big deal about it. Their spam gets deleted with no lasting effect except what you give it.

In referencing a previous discussion, I believe someone (waffles?) put forward the prospect of being able to hide a user's post from view. This could act as a stop gap against spammers for times when Dennis can't be here.

Dennis, I don't think "ignorance is bliss" really works out here... after all, it's the internet.
Especially with a website that's this large and active, you can't expect everyone to act maturely and in the exact same way when trolls like him pop up.

Until then, yeah, I think Kozakuu/Waffles(?)'s idea of hiding posts or adding a moderator or even reforming how accounts get monitored/managed/registered would help.
But making this place a closed forum would just kill off what's left of the Halo 1 community. And.. well, what good does that do?

Either way, Dennis, I understand that you want to keep things the same and it's more comforting to keep everything the same and under your control. But isn't it time that we do something to change this forum and move forward?

Yes it is. It's time to stop spamming the form with complaints about the deleted spammer, say the fist stanza of The Serenity Prayer stop making a big deal over it and go back to talking about Halo Custom Edition.