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Subject: What could possibly warrant the "Ultra-Ban?"

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Posted by: Forum
Plenty of websites with message boards use IP bans. If they are "100% useless", then why are they still used to this day?
Because they are morons.

Banning IPs can be dodged very easily (plus people who deserve those types of bans are the types who can dodge them). You can also hit innocents with them. Just let go of it.

I think Tom T hit it on the head when he said that it's to battle phishers. This locks the person from their inbox so they don't have anymore access to their inbox of pigeons. I can imagine that it can also prevent code injection attacks (I think ASP.NET has safeguards for that though).

[Edited on 10.16.2011 1:13 AM PDT]

  • 10.16.2011 1:12 AM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Leave me outta this.
Posted by: UnderTheKnif3
I know a dude that got ultra-banned. Achronos let him make an alt after the fact.

Yeah, figure that one out.

  • 10.16.2011 7:06 AM PDT

Take Achronos' shotgun.

  • 10.16.2011 7:08 AM PDT
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Hack into Bungie.net.

  • 10.16.2011 7:10 AM PDT

I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.

I tweet?

IP Bans are only useful to keep those with limited networking knowledge off the site. Otherwise it's almost laughably avoidable and only acts a big threat/deterrent to anyone who actually has serious malicious intent.

IP Bans, depending on the ISP and facility (college or military base for example), can actually be harmful to parties never even involved.
Posted by: Forum
Posted by: drummer0702
IP bans are 100% useless. So, I don't know what you're talking about.
IP bans are not completely useless. That's a fact.

They are, however, avoidable by different means, depending on how your connection is set up.

Plenty of websites with message boards use IP bans. If they are "100% useless", then why are they still used to this day?

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Posted by: Specter Wolf
IP Bans are only useful to keep those with limited networking knowledge off the site. Otherwise it's almost laughably avoidable and only acts a big threat/deterrent to anyone who actually has serious malicious intent.

IP Bans, depending on the ISP and facility (college or military base for example), can actually be harmful to parties never even involved.
Posted by: Forum
Posted by: drummer0702
IP bans are 100% useless. So, I don't know what you're talking about.
IP bans are not completely useless. That's a fact.

They are, however, avoidable by different means, depending on how your connection is set up.

Plenty of websites with message boards use IP bans. If they are "100% useless", then why are they still used to this day?
Many ISPs issue dynamic IPs. Once the user issued a different IP, the IP ban will be nullified.

So IP banning is almost negligible.

  • 10.16.2011 7:21 AM PDT

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  • 10.16.2011 7:39 AM PDT

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What Tom said.

  • 10.16.2011 8:08 AM PDT

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