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Not GP, but my guess is ban evasion. Someone gets banned from bad behavior, they create a new account. So you IP ban them. Then they switch over to Tor and kee
by amyjess 8y ago
Not GP, but my guess is ban evasion.
Someone gets banned from bad behavior, they create a new account. So you IP ban them. Then they switch over to Tor and keep making new accounts from anonymized IPs and start disrupting the forum by spamming it with slurs. The only solution is to ban Tor.
- falcolas 8y agoOr, you know, limit the ability of newly created user to spam forums. Or put them on "must be reviewed" lists. Or... The easiest solution is to ban Tor, but it's far from the only solution.
- user5994461 8y agoIt's the most effective solution, not just the easiest.
- wild_preference 8y agoAll of those may entail much, much more work than banning Tor. I can think of plenty of cool, robust systems I can build as well, but I do not have unlimited resources.
- megous 8y agoThen they go an get a list of countless http or socks proxies and the solution is to...?