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Banning Dr Viagra/Prettybutterfly for Identity Fraud -
09-11-2005, 14:45
Okay ladies and gentlemen, here's the facts:
1) We've seen a number of 'trolls' show up over our history, particuarlly recently with Lieutenant Fatman, who felt the need to tell us why we should not ban people, flame people, or even tell them what they cannot post on our community. These people, professed newbies, certainly know enough about us to tell us to change our culture, and they appeared with alarming frequency after flamewars and political discussions.
2) We've seen a number of identity fraud cases collaborating and working together over the years. Danskin/Kelly being the most famous and iconic, Dolmen being a confessed 'downvoter', and Lieutenant Fatman/Death. being only the most recent known example.
3) In the three above examples, we saw a common modus operandi: an effort to subvert board policy and practice, presumably for revenge in most cases.
Now, I won't go into recounting the specifics of Prettybutterfly and Dr Viagra, but neither of these identities were 'ideal newbies'. When Dr Viagra showed up on these new boards, he was immediately outspoken against many community decisions and was in at least a few cases immediately (within minutes) supported by Prettybutterfly who agreed wholeheartedly with him.
It transpires that Prettybutterfly and Dr Viagra have a cable broadband connection, which commonly use a static IP address. They share the same IP address, have never posted under another IP address, and no one else has used it but them. Following from my examples of shared IP numbers I gave in another thread, I submit this as highly questionable, if not damning evidence.
Prettybutterfly and Dr Viagra are not posting currently, so I do not know if they will be able to offer any explaination for this, but I do not believe that this is an innocent case of using the same ISP. If that were true, there would be at least SOME instance of different IP numbers, and despite that the other evidence should be sufficient to remove any doubt. This is a childish and manipulative stunt which should be treated with zero tollerance.
Still, we must be fair, and I would like to open this to the community to comment on, and to allow Prettybutterfly/Dr Viagra to say anything in their own defense. If we haven't heard from them in a few days, I think we should waste no time in voting for an IP ban.
"If I wanted to read Wuthering Heights, I'd shoot my self."
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