for those of you who may have forgot

[Angelfish]

In other words can they be booted until their 13th birthday?

Personally I realize that in a forum we are going by a persons word, I doubt anyone would admit to not meeting the age limit if they thought they would not be allowed to participate

[FroggyFox]

Yeah...usually we're just going to find out after the fact that they lied to us. Too bad. Pie in the sky hopes that someone would actually raise their kids to be accountable and tell the truth.

[catfishmike]

and what?accept the responsiblity of thier actions.best keep dreaming froggy

[FroggyFox]

C'mon everyone with me now! "dreeeeeaaam Dream dream dream....dreeeeeeaaam dream dream dream"

Responsibility for what actions again? sorry was caught up in the music

[Managuense]

the worst about trolls and obscene language/behavior-- definately removed

i agree that this may have been a little distasteful, but let me explain.

we oscarfish members are well aware of the amount of trolls we get, which is actually a sort of joke on the forum.

there is even a thread in the "polls" section where trolls of the past are joked about in a very light-hearted manner:

http://forums.oscarfish.com/viewtopi...a56f28fe111f93

this might clear up any misconceptions....
M

[fishface]

do u ban ppl from MFT? if so how many ppl have been banned? do u have to cross a certain line 2 be banned? and how wud u do it? the person who is/was banned cud they just register as another person of wud u ban there IP adress or something?

[catfishmike]

i check ip addresses.it's not to hard to spot certain people.most people don't change they way they type,don't think that far ahead.why would you want to know what the lines.why need to know why not just act as though you were in public.if nothing else be cool because there are enough people in the world that suck eggs enough to make up for the rest of us

[thecareys]

Originally posted by dana307
Froggy asks a good question and nicely said as well. If members are under the age of 13, and we are having problems with them/he/she does the board have any options? How are problems handled other than locking posts out?

from an admins standpoint ive been a server admin and hosted many forums so i can tell you that its difficult to ban a certain nusiance if they have a dynamic ip address

ok say you delete their account its free they can get another

say you block thier IP address it eventually changes and some other poor fool eventually gets that IP address

or you can block the hostname if you dont mind blocking out almost 1000 people

and if your completely evil you can grab their IP and hit them periodicly with short half DOS attacks (not enuff to saturate their bandwidth but just enuff to lag them down a bit) ive known several admins to do that



hope that helps

[dbacksrat]

um...somonas, this is way off the topic, and in know someone already asked this, but what exactly is your avatar?

[bobrob]

Dang now I have no reason for blaming people on my mistakes lol.