How forum banned people should have a IP ban

[Nirmit|NirmitPlays]

Why because of Xqer coming back and multiple of banned people making alt MCGAMER should put a big old IP forum ban on those people or even do the flick switch cause TBH they are just coming back..

 

[Imanol]

They can't IP ban, people have been saying it for my whole 2 years on MCSG and they already said why.

 

[Nirmit|NirmitPlays]

They can't IP ban, people have been saying it for my whole 2 years on MCSG and they already said why.

Alright thanks for clearing that up. But there has to be a way to stop them maybe discouragement may do the trick. Also how did Arena Master get IP banned?

 

[Imanol]

Alright thanks for clearing that up. But there has to be a way to stop them maybe discouragement may do the trick. Also how did Arena Master get IP banned?

I don't think he did, I think it was just a rumor, apparently they tried IP banning and something happened.

 

[Nirmit|NirmitPlays]

I don't think he did, I think it was just a rumor, apparently they tried IP banning and something happened.

Alright mods please leave this discussion open till Col_StaR replies

 

[Tuatara]

Once a long time ago, a Sr. Moderator banned an IP for a guy who had tons of accounts and kept coming back to screw around. Hacking and Abuse, obviously wrong, and he had a bone to pick with the staff (probably because he didn't like facing consequences to his own actions). Over the next three days, about five or six other players came forward, all reporting that they'd been banned for a reason they were innocent of, and had the records to prove it. We were stumped why they were banned until we realized they were all on the same IP. They explained that they lived in a large apartment complex and that they were leaching off an open WiFi spot; all of it was proven to us before the ban was removed. Ultimately we ended up dealing with the trouble-maker exactly as we do now: persistently banning them, no matter where they come from.

And the type of ban doesn't seem to discourage hackers and trolls either. Hackers don't think with long-term prospects in mind when it involves permanent removal.

~ Col_Star

 

[Lively]

When I was a Sr. mod, I was doing my usual thing and spam cleaning some bots. I cleaned one, and the automatic system decided to ban all the other accounts on that IP. This system is useful as often times spambots come from a few specific IPs, and they're all banned quickly. When I went to go check the forums, I was surprised to find that I had been permanently banned from the forums. Turns out, that spambot was somehow using an internal IP address, and close to a third of the active forumers got banned. This is one of the reasons we don't like to use IP bans. IP bans often obstruct regular players from playing. Just putting this out there.

 

[Evermore]

Any internet provider that issues dynamic IPs has a pool of potential IPs to give their customers. When one person has their IP changed, their old IP gets put into the pool and will be issued to another customer.

That poses a huge problem: A player gets IP banned, he changes his IP, his old IP gets issued to another player, that player inherits the ban.

 

[Nirmit|NirmitPlays]

Any internet provider that issues dynamic IPs has a pool of potential IPs to give their customers. When one person has their IP changed, their old IP gets put into the pool and will be issued to another customer.

That poses a huge problem: A player gets IP banned, he changes his IP, his old IP gets issued to another player, that player inherits the ban.

possibly but the chances of that are happening are quite less, as over 2 billion people use the internet while only 250,00 use the forums

 

[bigrsniperz]

1 word my man, vpn

 

[Blazerboy | Noah]

well idk if you're friends with any of these players like i am, but its not hard to change an IP...
and this does bring another question - how do forum banned players appeal bans?

 

[Nirmit|NirmitPlays]

1 word my man, vpn

yeah that's the problem Blazerboy | Noah from ts if you are banned on ts gg