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chaoticag

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Re: Banning
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2009, 12:30:27 pm »

Punk buster can ban you based on the hardware you have, so if you do get banned that way you'll need a new computer.
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Leafsnail

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Re: Banning
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2009, 01:09:26 pm »

As I say, it's used very, very rarely.  There is one game I know though which would routinely "Taint" people's harddrives to stop them making new accounts.
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Re: Banning
« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2009, 01:17:38 pm »

Usually an IP ban should be reserved only for the more extreme cases, since it could result in collateral damage (you end up banning a whole range, like an University or even a whole ISP from an entire country, because a lot of IPs aren't fixed.
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Re: Banning
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2009, 10:47:21 pm »

a whole ISP from an entire country

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Re: Banning
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2009, 10:56:31 pm »

Like real zombies, there's only so many times they'd get back up again.

Heh, hehe. I just had to quote that.

Like REAL zombies.
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Re: Banning
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2009, 12:06:19 am »

I noticed that Yanlin's account still exists after the ban. There have been other times where a banned person's account disappears entirely, their name stops being a link to their profile and just is white letters, and it says "Guest" under their name.
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Re: Banning
« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2009, 12:10:09 am »

I noticed that Yanlin's account still exists after the ban. There have been other times where a banned person's account disappears entirely, their name stops being a link to their profile and just is white letters, and it says "Guest" under their name.

I think they might have deleted their accounts themselves. That's no longer an option.
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Re: Banning
« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2009, 01:00:01 am »


a whole ISP from an entire country

Wikipedia did that once. ED has the details, I think
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Re: Banning
« Reply #23 on: August 03, 2009, 01:20:43 am »

a whole ISP from an entire country

 :o
The UAE has an ISP for the whole country, or something close enough. For some reason, someone is always downloading from rapidshare at any given time of day. I haven't bumped into any IP bans that ban me, since almost no one in the UAE uses internet forums.
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