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Originally posted by Cybele
Understandable. I have owned and modded several forums in the past. However, there are members of this forum that are allowed to continue to troll. Even though the mods remove threads they have started, the users remain to cause problems. Why aren't the hardcore rule breakers banned permanently, including their IPs, instead of little 2 and 3 day bans. They only make more usernames to come and troll some more.
It is sad really. Because the cool people here are great and I enjoy discussing the show with them even when we don't agree with each other. But the trolls ruin it for everyone.
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unfortunately nowadays with sub routines like Hide IP etc and the ease with which you can reset your router if not on a static IP ip bans are not very effective.
The only real deterrent is to trace the IP back and get in touch with the ISP and report the user for Net abuse with dates and times etc, they will investigate and eventually may restrict the user's access to certain URL's - note the word eventually, some ISP's can take up to 28 days for their netabuse investigations.