The recent “done-in-a-day” experience with sweetpoet amazed me that a putz can behave so poorly that he got banned the very day he joined.
Apart from sock puppetry, what’s the record for fastest banning due to jaw-droppingly poor behavior?
Some people get banned before their first posts due to wildly ill-advised user naming practices.
A lot of spambots get banned immediately upon making their first post. It’s just that we don’t usually see it because the mods are so good about immediately removing the evidence.
A very long time ago, a returning poster was banned before they completed setting up their new account. That’s pretty much as fast as you can get.
A few years ago we had a micro-invasion from another board. IIRC there were two posters and a couple of sacks. They whole thing was over in two or three hours.
Banning guests is nothing. I’d like to know who had the shortest stint as a paying member.
Less than a day, certainly, for people who were very close to the line, then paid up and shot themselves in the foot.
Wow! How long does it take to set up a new account? Mine was so long ago I can’t remember.
How did “they” catch it? Was the information provided similar to the original account, or did they do it from the same ISP, or both?
True Blue Jack
It actually was about 6 months ago.
I banned a guest who, for the sake of my faulty memory, say his name was DoperDude, had just posted some spam. When I returned from the banning screen, I looked at the bottom of the board, noticed the Newest Poster announcement said that DoperDude1 had just registered. I went right back and banned him as well, before he could complete his registration.
Note: The name DoperDude was pulled out of my ass. I can’t remember the guy’s actual name. Suffice it to say that’s pretty dumb, re-registering as Name1 immediately after being banned.
No, it was Tubadiva, and it was back around when I started posting. Can’t remember any other details to search on.
Typically the Authorities don’t like to reveal their specific methodologies for pinpointing the ne’er-do-wells, lest said n-d-w’s exploit said revelations and develop tactics for evading said methodologies.