Thanks... I try. Like I said before, I'm trying myself to stay up with it as much as possible because I might be getting back into a Z.

 

Wow Matt cleaned up this thread good

Yeah I stuck that other thread, was too busy to respond though

 

Please stick with your evo man....you've already proven what kind of person you are on the forums and couldn't imagine you at a meet with a Z, hating on every newb who just got their Z and has questions.

 

first of all, I believe this was already posted in here

second... Z owner once = Z owner for life, so please drop it - last warning kthxbai

 

evil tt, your lucky Wired got here before me.

 

sorry to steal your thunder

 

temp.ted.......ahh...I'll let you have this one...dont want to go through the hastle of creating a new name

 

actually the website keeps a record of every IP address you've ever used... and making a new name to circumvent a ban is grounds for IP ban, just a fact not a threat

 

Updated for headers...

 

My IP is 127.0.0.1 ..please don't ban me



kudos to the mods!

 

wow you must think I was born yesterday....

I can smell bluetooth and see 802.11...don't wanna F with me buddy

 

 

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Good thing 95% of internet users don't have static ip addresses?

 

True, but that is still not enough anonymity to prevent us from figuring out who you are, believe it or not. The only way to ensure we can't trace you is probably to use a different proxy every time you log in. That would be very time consuming so if you really want to raise hell by doing so, I guess you have way too much time on your hands

 

Not to derail this already derailed thread but...since most internet users are assigned a new new IP via the ISPs DCHp server, how could you know?

 

The pool of IP addresses may not be as big as you think it is. Can people get away with crap a few times? Probably. But if they keep posting from 2 accounts over the course of a couple weeks or so they are 99% going to get caught. Often times these IP addresses repeat themselves.

It's not impossible to fool the system perfectly, just time consuming... so time consuming that I don't think most people would have the patience for it.

 

As a software engineer, I am quite familiar with IP assignments. I am just not 100% certain that banning via IP is the best way. granted, some people just need to be banned via what ever means possible.

 

it rarely comes to that, but yes you're right, sometimes it's the only way. I think ONE TIME we had a complaint because somebody got IP banned and someone else from the forums worked at the same building as that guy, so the good guy inadvertently got banned. that was probably the only incident that ever came from IP banning

 

Updated.

Any info that isn't in here that you would like added in, let me know. That doesn't mean ask if something is available... TELL me something is, and give me PROOF.