I want to thank a valuable member of FST

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

great work by the person who caught him, definitely ban his ip.

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Originally Posted by ben99

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

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I was thinking the same thing... I know thee has to be a vbulletin addon out there that alerts you when there's 40 people with the same IP.

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Originally Posted by ben99

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

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True, but they do say they do not activily look for dupe account.

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Originally Posted by ben99

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

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It's difficult, dynamic ip, new email, new username, how can you distinguish this from legitimate accounts, not easy unless you start banning part's of ISP's ranges

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Originally Posted by dragoi92

this is incredible
How did u catch him?

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I don't want him to say. If he reveals his methods then they will know what to look for.

Also I do feel he should be recognized for what he has done here but I don't know if he should go public then others will know to look out for him. Im not sure yet.

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Originally Posted by Villalltheway

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Originally Posted by ben99

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

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True, but they do say they do not activily look for dupe account.

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Yes we do but it's not as easy as you may think.

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Originally Posted by Time-Traveller

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Originally Posted by ben99

there's something seriously wrong when someone can create 40 accounts and not get caught by staff. You guys seriously need to re-examine how you catch dupe accounts holders.

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It's difficult, dynamic ip, new email, new username, how can you distinguish this from legitimate accounts, not easy unless you start banning part's of ISP's ranges

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Well whats the point of everyone crying out for an IP ban? If someone can create 40+ accounts on a site and staff hasnt noticed but a member has then new staff is needed.

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Originally Posted by Time-Traveller

Well whats the point of everyone crying out for an IP ban? If someone can create 40+ accounts on a site and staff hasnt noticed but a member has then new staff is needed.

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Good point. But i don't think it's that easy to catch all the account dupes. Remember there are 60'000+ members in fst. It's harder than it looks to keep control of everything.

can you list the accounts? i want to see how many posts are in each.

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Originally Posted by Albo Da Kid

Good point. But i don't think it's that easy to catch all the account dupes. Remember there are 60'000+ members in fst. It's harder than it looks to keep control of everything.

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There's a mod on vbulletin.org that catches dupe accounts and doesnt go with an IP address. Unless FST doesnt run on a legit version of vB then they could easily download and install that. I used this on my old vB forum and I know it works.