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Subject: How do moderators deal with alt accounts?

*reminisces when the Bungie/Halo community wasn't made up of CoD kids*
*sighs*
*activates time-machine and sets the clock back to Nov. 9, 2004*
glory days here I come..
*vanishes*

Do moderators have a way of finding out your main account if you're breaking the rules with an alt?

Just wondering.

  • 09.03.2011 4:58 AM PDT
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If you get banned on the alt account and then forget to clear cookies when switching to your main, you will get banned on your main too. But that's all that can really happen

  • 09.03.2011 5:03 AM PDT

"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.

I was a finalist :P

I guess the most common approach is by chance i.e. Blacklisting and alternate account, which has its original account already blacklisted.

Other people, who are using alternate accounts to avoid their blacklist have also made several mistakes while Ninja's are on duty. In my earlier time on these forums, a person was banned by [CENSORED] because he noticed a user had said his X-box live gamertag, which was part of the information on the original users blacklist.

However, it is nearly impossible to determine if a Bungie.net user is an alternate account of someone who has been blacklisted (with the exception of a few 'obvious' examples).

  • 09.03.2011 5:14 AM PDT

Posted by: Big Black Bear
What are we supposed to be discussing here?


"Nothing in the 'Verse can stop me."

So long as the alts are doing no harm I don't think they're that strict on the matter. Alts are only usually rule breaking if they're used for ban evasion.

  • 09.03.2011 5:20 AM PDT

Posted by: Clone Outcast
So long as the alts are doing no harm I don't think they're that strict on the matter. Alts are only usually rule breaking if they're used for ban evasion.

What he said.

  • 09.03.2011 5:21 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Niner
If you get banned on the alt account and then forget to clear cookies when switching to your main, you will get banned on your main too. But that's all that can really happen

Which is why I like the idea of not allowing posting from members that do not meet at least one of the following criteria.

1) Any level of trust/title that puts the account out of status of "member".
2) A cookie that is >8-24 hours old. I'd prefer 24, but even the 8 hour limit would slow/prevent a mass of alt account spam.


Without one of those, the member is taken to a warning page that apologizes for the inconvenience, and explains that the site requires a "baked cookie" in order to allow members to post and that this is a site protection method due to new/alt account abuse over the years.

  • 09.03.2011 9:07 AM PDT