Excuse me, but

Well, obviously, if the idiot took enough time out of their "busy schedule" to register. shrugs

Who knows, Cassius, there's been a few like that ~ the problem is being addressed currently..

Kick their arses somebody!

It meant that the web content filter temporarily banned this site for me. :sad:

Couldn't you take them to court for liable or something? Actually thats a bit extreme. Somebody pointed out to me a while ago that banning IPs may not be that effective for internet cafes etc.

On my site I have a Xoops Name Filter, as well as a Word filter. I can set it so that certian words cant be used in screen names, or on the site in any form, maybe you should see if your page can do the same thing.

Also on mine I can set Screen names to stone, so there cant be 4 Orpheus's.

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Loco said:
It meant that the web content filter temporarily banned this site for me. :sad:

Couldn't you take them to court for liable or something? Actually thats a bit extreme. Somebody pointed out to me a while ago that banning IPs may not be that effective for internet cafes etc.

It's the same IP range we ban, it's just it bans the worse effects of our friend - pages and pages of spam. They can register, but not post their usual crap.. I'll have a chat with Lep about a couple of my own suggestions for PHP'ing around that problem...

MoneyShot: As this is a hacked* around version of phpBB, so it's probably more viable to work in our own code for disabling usernames of questionable content, or showing only the most recent.. (when the muppet has been deleted).

*moron notice: hacked != illegal activity, hacking == code changing perfectly legal, geeky fun. cracking, however, is BAD. BAD!

Well, I have been around computers all my life, and view the term Hacker as a good word meaning Coder, Programmer, and what not.. I dont know why Hacker had to become a bad word meaning, one who steals, breaks, and cracks code.

I can remember the days when there was no internet, well not a public one anyways. My mom worked at White Sands Missle Range and had access to the Pre-Public version used by the military.. I can also remember BBS's ( Bulliten Board Systems ) That people would put on there home machines to host content.. you would connect to theme by dialing in on you phone and 300 baud modems.. =)

I used to play with Punch cards, used to program Main Frames at White Sands Missle Range. I was playing games on those Main frames from my earliest memory.. Missle Command, Tank Commander, Luner Lander and what not.

Damn did I just give away my age.. heh heh..

I hope you get the SOB..

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Further measures have been taken to stop this :razz:

Sending Orph round his house with a baseball bat?

Loco said:
Couldn't you take them to court for liable or something?

The word you're looking for is "libel" and not really. Perhaps for the current one that I see as registered, but not for the one in Cass's message. You gotta say something that's not true about someone in a malicious way in some form of print media. In other words, random bad words ain't enough, it needs to damage someone specifically in some way. Plus, there's all sorts of satire laws that a defense will attempt to take advantage of.

Leperous said:
Further measures have been taken to stop this :razz:

good man.....rugal factor?....im betting on it....

Mr.Ben said:
Sending Orph round his house with a baseball bat?

after he rounds up a few friends... :wink: youve got my whereabouts....ive got the nerve, and ive got the touch.... :biggrin:

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

Leperous said:
Further measures have been taken to stop this :razz:

didn't stop the Cassius name slur that is currently present, unless the new idea has not been implemented yet..

my thoughts...

have the name submitances setup like the tutorials, you submit your application to join SP, and someone high up either puts the stamp of approval upon it, or veto's the application and you fail to join..

seems simple to me.

an auto email delivery system would only postpone the situation for a couple minutes while they await the delivery of said mail..

Well, when I get some time I'll make it so that people aren't actually members until they've authenticated their e-mail address... heh or I could just make registering into a painful 5-page-long process with cunning anti-resubmit gubbins built in :razz:

me likes Orph's idea.

Actually, I just banned people using Mindspring ISP from registering, apparently the only two people who use and visit this site anyway are Rugal and this recent tosser (if they are two different people!)

so the last few genitalia names have had the same general IP?

well as odd as that is, its good news, simplifies the banning process :smile: