# Fastest banning? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309 "2007-01-09T17:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/1 "2007-01-09T17:00:45Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/2 "2007-01-09T17:45:12Z")
Some people get banned before their first posts due to wildly ill-advised user naming practices. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/3 "2007-01-09T17:49:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/4 "2007-01-09T17:52:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/5 "2007-01-09T18:28:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/6 "2007-01-09T18:56:08Z")
Banning guests is nothing. I’d like to know who had the shortest stint as a paying member. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/7 "2007-01-09T22:20:41Z")
Less than a day, certainly, for people who were very close to the line, then paid up and shot themselves in the foot. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/8 "2007-01-10T00:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] 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. [/QUOTE] 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 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/9 "2007-01-10T05:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/10 "2007-01-10T13:59:19Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] 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. [/QUOTE] No, it was **Tubadiva** , and it was back around when I started posting. Can’t remember any other details to search on. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-banning/387309/11 "2007-01-10T17:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] 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? [/QUOTE] 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.