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| MK14:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 10, 2020, 06:27:05 pm ---They started chest beating and idolizing trump. It resulted in a temporary ban during which i turned a blind eye to them using 2 other accounts. They then started having an argument they would not relent on about the morality of hacking things like rigol scopes in a totally unrelated thread. They refused to stop whilst accusing me of shilling mp site by having to constantly take part in the discussion to try and restore order to the chaos they caused. So ban was made permanent. Now they keep re-registering just to prove...... I don't know what. No one said that we have a system that can detect angrybird's umpteenth account and stop them at registration, other than people reporting post by a new user that still tries to make trouble. It's all rather childish. But you get one now and then. --- End quote --- Thanks. That is a wonderful, explanation! :) I guess you have the occasional, childish (or whatever), forum poster. Perhaps, because a 'moderator', is psychologically seen, as being like a teacher/headmaster/boss/parent/leader like person/personality, some people seem to think it is alright, to be significantly disrespectful, to such people. As regards enforcing using our real life mobile/cell phone numbers, to register. Here are three reasons, AGAINST it. (1)...Many, many people, WON'T want to register that way, and will simply never register. So, a huge, future loss of membership, could occur (as mentioned by other poster(s), as well). (2)...As I mentioned earlier. I researched using such a method (quickly, after it was mentioned in this thread). Unfortunately, it turns out to be easily cheated. Especially, by people, already knowledgeable in getting around IP bans. tl;dr It probably won't work. (3)...From my experiences, on other forums (which I don't want to list or publicly mention, here). It would/could open up the forum, to being hacked. Because it would have too much of peoples real life information, making it a target, for hackers. Forum software, tends to be relatively weak/susceptible to hacking. At least two of the forums, I've previously (or currently) been a member of, have been hacked in the past, and everyone's details, were stolen. So, these days, I would avoid ones, insisting on having personal information. Lots of websites, (forums and others), have been hacked in the past. E.g. The Sony Play Station Network. So best, if the database(s), don't have our personal information. |
| Simon:
Well all sites are under constant attack. Having a VPS I quickly realised just how much of the traffic is hacking, I would have a list thousands of records long of people trying to log into anything they could. Obviously the more data you have the me cautious you have to be which is why in setting up another forum with someone that wanted everyone's particulars I cautioned and said that the policy should be based on the need to know. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 10, 2020, 09:29:50 pm ---Well all sites are under constant attack. Having a VPS I quickly realised just how much of the traffic is hacking, I would have a list thousands of records long of people trying to log into anything they could. Obviously the more data you have the me cautious you have to be which is why in setting up another forum with someone that wanted everyone's particulars I cautioned and said that the policy should be based on the need to know. --- End quote --- This forum, seems to be rather successful, and useful. Because we can create a relatively complicated/difficult/obscure thread, but the membership is so (relatively) large, varied, active and helpful. That you will often get the answers, that you want, and often in a relatively short timescale. But, if the moderators, decided to heavily "lock down", this forum. With heavy registration requirements and stuff. Although, it would help keep out the riff raff (Un-savory people), we would probably lose the critical mass of posters, which helps keep this forum alive and kicking. As you said, there are lots of hackers. Unfortunately, it seems to be something, we have to accept, in the modern age of the internet. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Karel on March 10, 2020, 01:59:59 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on March 10, 2020, 11:37:54 am --- --- Quote from: Karel on March 08, 2020, 08:51:40 am ---Would it be an idea to use two-factor authentication (for registering only) that uses an sms verification? --- End quote --- The forum has a 2FA option, I use it myself, but it's not compulsory. --- End quote --- What about enforcing it (for registering only) to avoid problems with people who create multiple accounts? --- End quote --- That would not stop any malicious actor, as the 2FA is Google Authenticater based and and anyone can use that without tracking. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: MK14 on March 10, 2020, 04:03:14 pm --- --- Quote from: Fraser on March 10, 2020, 12:32:33 pm ---To the person who has effectively ‘gone to war’ with the moderators....... --- End quote --- I would love to know the original incident, that has sparked this activity off (if applicable). Was it a previously banned member, who got annoyed with the mod(s) ? --- End quote --- Some people don't like being told to pull their head in when it comes to off-topic stuff. And then when they don't stop and they get a temporary ban they go into anger mode. So much so that we have former banned members who create multiple accounts, post things to try and get the site shut down under the DMCA, and ones that post child porn or do a DDOS attack on xmas day as a "present" to us. Even years later they still can't let it go. Unfortunately these people exist and it's just a nature of running such forum as it gets big enough you get the bell curve outliers. The only alternative to not triggering these people is to have no rules at all and let it be a usenet style free-for-all. |
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