Nope... someone really did try to pass themselves off as me by editing their config.ini, if I'm reading the listing correctly. I'm guessing that it got picked up because the imposter was using the same IP to play as himself and impersonate me.

He may also have been acting like a total troll in-game... anyone that knew me in-game or in the forums could probably tell that someone with poor grammar and a severe case of childishness likely isn't me.

Somebody using your IP? Or do you play as Lone_Coyote.

Well, while I was checking over additions to the Spadille blacklist, I came up against this entry:

207.216.0.128 - Lone_Coyote - jojoe2 - Cheating - 09/12/2011 - JoJoeStinky - Marksmanship ingame name, evade ban. BanX3.

(pardon total loss of format. Would've repaired, but BBpress doesn't roll that way).

I'm apparently cool enough to have imposters now.

"Rules and community guidelines:

- Do not revive old topics (more than a week old) unless it provides a solution to an unresolved problem (preferablly to the original topic)"

Sorry, I'll read the forum rules more clearly next time.

Rules and community guidelines:

- Do not revive old topics (more than a week old) unless it provides a solution to an unresolved problem (preferablly to the original topic)

Was this necessary?

I've had worse then just any grieving. I've had most people on the server on our side grieving and taking everything down after about half an hour of in only being three people. That is when it's truly annoying.

@Dan - Don't over react to Axle's comment. It's not that bad, and he's not being serious.

@Jacob's First Post - Agreed.

That's inappropriate axle. Please refrain from insult other members

Yes. We defiantly need accounts. They should be free, and tied to an email. Get banned, stay banned. Greifers don't care enough to make a new email and account so they can get banned again. It takes 5 min to make an account, but only 20 seconds to grief and get banned.

Also, devas makes me want to hurt myself for being of the same species.

@1337 please refrain from adding tags that demean other members of this forum. Consider this your warning

I hope that you enjoyed the cyan blocks, courtesy of my impostor.

Devas is a griefer in the game, he's worried

StackOverflow, your wiki page says:

What will be done about people who were wrongfully banned? Sure there could be an "appeal" ability, but who is going to manage all of that and who is to decide whether somebody's story is legitimate or not?

the registration system should be for authentication purposes only. bans should be on a per server basis, not global.

What is a troll?

I never knew Devas was a serious troll...

It's a "team game". When 10 people are building and 6 people are part of the actual team. What was that you said again?

This thread had to be cleaned up since the moment it was posted... Bad suggestions everywhere.

Requesting thread cleanup

I'm just trying to see if it'll catch on here... Which it doesn't.

EDIT: the story got deleted again :( sad.

@Devas: Pyramid-scheme spam-kiddieness? That's new from you. Usually you're just mildly trollish in an at least somewhat intelligent way.

Frankly, I think a lot of this junk you've posted needs to be deleted.

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Nope, but there was a story included in that post for your own personal entertainment, I hope that you enjoyed it.

I did read it(it was about this being suggested before).

Did you make another post after that?

I hope that you did enjoy the lecture before my post got deleted, Jacob.

I assume you find Stack stupid too?

I tried searching for this but nothing turned up.

Please stop this nonsense and be serious for a sec instead of spamming the thread.

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And you better have not been serious about your stupid suggestions, too.

"Say that to my face, not on the internet, and see what happens."

I am starting to have my doubts regarding whether you are actually serious or not.

Don't underestimate the sheer dedication trolls have anywhere on the internet, that's one of their qualities. Not all IP addresses are static, in fact most aren't and it is horrible practice to tie a user/account to a specific IP with the intent of using that as an effective way to ban somebody. Another thing to realize is that an IP is not necessarily the same thing as a person. It's quite common for multiple people to use the same IP, which leaves the chance of all of them being banned for the actions of a single person.

Here are some of my thoughts regarding the registration system idea that's been floating around.