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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
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    Default Repeated ban evaders

    Other than immediately reporting every post by the offender, is there anything else we can do when we realise that a banned user has returned with a new identity?

    What level of detail should the post report have? Should it include the offender's banned usernames (or at least as many of them as is reasonable)?

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    Default Re: Repeated ban evaders

    Quote Originally Posted by JustIgnoreMe View Post
    Other than immediately reporting every post by the offender, is there anything else we can do when we realise that a banned user has returned with a new identity?

    What level of detail should the post report have? Should it include the offender's banned usernames (or at least as many of them as is reasonable)?
    How would you know for sure that it was a banned user? I mean, there's someone on here that pretty much everyone is sure is a previously banned user, but nobody has actual proof to present, so that user hasn't (as far as I know) ever been reported for that.

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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
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    Default Re: Repeated ban evaders

    Imagine there's a user JustIgnoreMe, who gets banned. Then a new user, JustIgnoreMe1, signs up and posts on the same topics. That user is also banned. By the time we're up to JustIgnoreMe293, the style, syntax and substance of the posts is unmistakeable. Eventually, even if the new username is YouCantIgnoreMe, or IJustIgnoreYou, or JustIgnoreMeX, the user is almost instantly recogniseable.

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    Default Re: Repeated ban evaders

    Quote Originally Posted by JustIgnoreMe View Post
    Other than immediately reporting every post by the offender, is there anything else we can do when we realise that a banned user has returned with a new identity?

    What level of detail should the post report have? Should it include the offender's banned usernames (or at least as many of them as is reasonable)?
    Sheriff: Please just report it promptly with whatever evidence or reasons for suspicion you may have and we'll investigate. Listing all the prior names isn't necessary.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fiery Diamond View Post
    How would you know for sure that it was a banned user? I mean, there's someone on here that pretty much everyone is sure is a previously banned user, but nobody has actual proof to present, so that user hasn't (as far as I know) ever been reported for that.
    Sheriff: Please report this user so that we at least have the opportunity to investigate.
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