"PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Trolls, shitposters, and other previously banned users, READ THIS"

[DarkUnderlord]

Well, we need admin buy-in to do this anyway and DU doesn't seem very enthusiastic. These guys aren't going to take it seriously if I start telling them they need to reveal their original account names or get banned.

If I were DU, I would create a Site Feedback thread with a title like "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Trolls, shitposters, and other previously banned users, READ THIS". Then make an offer to restore anybody's banned original account so long as they can prove it's theirs, with a commitment to no more permanent bans. Also, no more permanent posting limitations for users like Makabb who have created alts to circumvent them.

Then at the very end, add something like "Note: We reserve the right to ban any non-original alt accounts from this moment forth." Give them a week or so and then ban anybody who hasn't cooperated, and keep banning them if they come back until they do.

Basically this.

 

[Goral]

Infinitron taking over the Codex and giving orders to DU confirmed.

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[taxalot]

This is not a problem if, like me, you never shitpost.

 

[Darth Roxor]

what exactly is the purpose of this

 

[Don Peste]

And get people out of jail already. It's time for reconciliation.

 

[YES!]

I think the terms troll and shitposter should be banned permanently. They make no sense and can be applied to anyone with a brain and usually is and often by the very stupid and very young.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Jim the Dinosaur]

why not just automatically append a roman numeral to an alt's original account, e.g. YES! becomes Roqua II and his next alt NO? becomes Roqua III then Inf's ocd is satisfied because he knows who is who.

Also people should be forced to have avatars imo maybe give them an initial randomized one, though this might need its own thread.

 

[Goral]

what exactly is the purpose of this

Inf's ocd is satisfied

Innymi słowy DU chce zrobić dobrze Tronowi.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

:butwhy:

 

[Goral]

:butwhy:

This thread is a bait, they will ban anyone posting here on the suspicion of multi accounts (and especially those who rate DU's post).

 

[Havoc]

This is a wonderful idea. I'm not a puppet. You are a puppet. I'm not Infinitron second account.

 

[Black]

Ban Infiniltrator.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Infinitorn wants us to drown in shitposts.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

When it comes to alts, I've always gone by this passage in the Old Testament:

Having an alt that you use from time to time is all fine and well (plenty of you do it) but interacting with each other, and bringing it to the sheer extent of having a ridiculous number of alts, most of them posting "crap" - and particularly when you've been banned in the past - is a very big line in the sand to cross. There's a difference between bringing out an alt from time to time (Wyrmlord III) - versus having multiple alts on the go at once, interacting with each other.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

 

[Severian Silk]

Bans are bans and should stay bans. Ban them again!

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

A free white man should have the right to have alts. Women should be restricted to a single alt tho.

 

[A horse of course]

DarkUnderlord is too soft imo

 

[Jim the Dinosaur]

A free white man should have the right to have alts. Women should be restricted to a single alt tho.

we're just talking about successor "alts" tho, where the same poster switches to a new account with the exact same posting style confusing people left and right, not proper simultaneous alts where a true posting artist can give this separate account its own character and je ne sais quoi.

 

[Infinitron]

Might as well give you guys the original post, since I talked about this in Shoutbox previously anyway:

DarkUnderlord OK, so there a number of shitposters on the Codex who keep getting banned and coming back with new alts. Neckbeard Shitlord (currently Wehraboo), Orgasm/Black Bart Charlie (currently Janise), possibly others.

I understand the implicit rational behind the way we're dealing with these posters right now. You don't really want to permaban people from the Codex, so the idea is that if we ban them and let them create new accounts, they might improve their behavior when they get the opportunity to start over a with a clean slate.

Well, these guys aren't improving. They just keep doing the same shit again and again. Banning them is actually serving their shitposting agenda by confusing people with the endless parade of alts. And re-identifying them each time is getting pretty boring. It's not a sustainable strategy.

I propose a different strategy. I say we force all of these shitposters to return to their earliest verifiable* accounts. From that moment on, we should:

1) Only issue temporary (1-2 week) bans, not permabans, except perhaps in the most heinous cases.
2) Nuke or permaban all shitposter alts on sight.

Call it "Operation Alt Amnesty". Instead of allowing the shitposters to engage in an endless masquerade, this would take them out of the shadows and make them clearly identifiable to all. Once you put them on your ignore list, they'd stay there. They wouldn't get to shed all of their richly-deserved tags every time they got banned.

It wouldn't have to be exclusive to shitposters, either. You could offer everybody a chance to return to their original accounts, like Daedalos/Mengsk for instance. It could create all sorts of drama and surprises. I don't think we know what Neckbeard Shitlord's original Codex account actually is. Could it be the individual known as "Bryce"?

*That means the earliest account that they can prove they have access to its email address, I guess. Or maybe you could look at their IP addresses. We wouldn't want to give out oldfag accounts to shitposters purely on their say-so.

 

[Parsifarka]

This is not a problem if, like me, you never shitpost.

How do you call what you did in the French elections thread?

 

[taxalot]

This is not a problem if, like me, you never shitpost.

How do you call what you did in the French elections thread?

Fact checking.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

:butwhy:

 

[Janise]

my god are kikes retarded they keep approving 5 typical moronic dexer posts
and then cry for mommy when tired of being abused garbagemen

but this isnt it
the kike knows about the proxy wars, ze alt problem, but he writes a tldr anyway, not mentioning what it wants...
the kike is trying to subvert the admins in a grab for power
banning power

make the dex pay to post, bury it already, there is nothing of value here