- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: sesquipadelian
what is a 'VS" thread?
you brought up how people post about alt accounts. this can be done in ways that are personal attacks, and it can be done in ways that do not. if you see someone say negative things about a user, then you can report the post and it will be looked at. this goes for all forms of personal attacks, and it applies to personal attacks that apply to accounts that are called alt accounts. but, simply mentioning that a specific brand new account with loads of activity has all of the trappings of an alt account hardly seems like a personal attack.
let's imagine that i make posts every day defending the rank system and various settings in team hardcore. then i get banned on 1/20, and i am not able to post. if on 1/20 a brand new account with no gamertag linked pops up with the name 'foot and a halflong word' pops up and continues along the exact same lines and argues all of the same points in all of the same threads, it might look suspicious. now let's suppose that 'foot and a half long word' gets banned on 1/23, and on 1/23 a brand new alt account pops up with no gamertag linked with the name 'very long word', and does the same stuff. now, on 1/27, after a 7 day ban, my account gets the ban lifted, and all of a sudden the activity of the other two accounts stops entirely, and they remain inactive until my account gets banned, and then the cycle continues.
do you think that it would be a personal attack to mention that 'foot and a half long word' and 'very long word' look like alt accounts?
Yeah see but the thing is why should that be on the thread? Couldn't people just PM a moderator? What purpose does it serve to general discussion on the thread?
I mean by all means just PM a moderator if you see somebody who looks "Suspiscious" if somebody just posts it on a thread, its kind of pointless.
And what if the person stating "That guy is an alternate account" is wrong? There is no way they can be 100% if somebody views an "Alternate Account" they can just PM a moderator and get the problem solved, instead of posting it on the forums. This is a much better solution, then stating "You are an alternate account".
[Edited on 01.16.2008 6:18 PM PST]