punishment by banhammer

Xiao_Caity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:40 am **Post subject:**

Dark Elf wrote:

Reading about Telcontar's fate, I find that there is one word, one measly word, which in itself contains all the subtle ordeals of sorrow and perhaps not-so subtle urges to kill certain adulterers with a dulled hacksaw. Just one word:

Women.

Even I think that quite a lot. God, some members of my gender shouldn't be allowed to fuck, let alone reproduce.

papa_dog_1999 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:21 am **Post subject:**

Xiao_Caity wrote:

Even I think that quite a lot. God, some members of my gender shouldn't be allowed to fuck, let alone reproduce.

..or interact at any sort of emotional level, or communicate by any means with anyone other than themselves.

Xiao_Caity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:23 am **Post subject:**

Well put. *scratches Puppy behind the ears*

Philes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:56 pm **Post subject:**

Darkfool can't Haiku
He sickens me with failure
Booze is my solace

rosenshyne · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:04 pm **Post subject:**

The Great Haiku Thread
I miss it; Where did it go?
Or was that elsewhere?

DarkFool · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:36 am **Post subject:**

The Great Haiku Thread
Existed here; Philes: Sorry
I fixed the last one?

Dark Elf · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:09 am **Post subject:**

Ought Hrungnirs Slayer
Yet again be swung at the
Jester of Shadows?

DarkUnderlord · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:50 am **Post subject:**

DarkFool wrote:

Banning his IP will do nothing. It's being randomly generated at each interval, and PHP isn't sophisticated enough to work around that.

It is if you mod it to be so. Most proxy IPs show up in banlists and nice, publicly available lists of proxies. Implementing the same check I used at the Codex knocks out a fair chunk of them, at least making it bloody annoying to try and use them.

... or we just set account registration to "admin approval required".

DarkFool · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:29 am **Post subject:**

DarkUnderlord wrote:

DarkFool wrote:

Banning his IP will do nothing. It's being randomly generated at each interval, and PHP isn't sophisticated enough to work around that.

It is if you mod it to be so. Most proxy IPs show up in banlists and nice, publicly available lists of proxies. Implementing the same check I used at the Codex knocks out a fair chunk of them, at least making it bloody annoying to try and use them.

... or we just set account registration to "admin approval required".

Oh really? I guess that shows my lack of education in PHP. The first one sounds like it is more work up front, but will be less work in the long haul?

DarkUnderlord · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:40 am **Post subject:**

DarkFool wrote:

Oh really? I guess that shows my lack of education in PHP. The first one sounds like it is more work up front, but will be less work in the long haul?

Turns out quite a few people use proxies (particularly overseas and especially Russians) or IP addresses that show up in banlists. At least that's what I found when I implemented it at the Codex. We kept out the target users but had a few people saying "Why I not register?" so I had to build an exemption system around it to allow certain people in. Given the few registrations here, I doubt it would be problematic. Truth be told it wasn't even a real issue at the Codex. Though it is only something I'd implement if you get a real persistent fucker who wants to play games.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:57 am **Post subject:**

Ban this account, and we'll be on the road to finding out?

So, wait, you run RPGCodex also?

Vorak · **Joined:** Sep 15, 2003 **Posts:** 5681

RPG Codex is like a retirement home for T-A Admins, only unlike a retirement home its full of dangerous psychos.

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

Much like T-A in other words?

Vorak · **Joined:** Sep 15, 2003 **Posts:** 5681

Face it, we're Codex Lite most of the time.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:52 am **Post subject:**

Vorak wrote:

RPG Codex is like a retirement home for T-A Admins, only unlike a retirement home its full of dangerous psychos.

I was going to make a reference here, but I just realized that my joke would make sense to only Americans, and a few at that, so it's been abandoned. Instead you read this, and I'm laughing at you for having done so.

Btw, when I said "Ban this account" to DU, I meant Soviet's current account. Not mine. I'm quite content with my current account. :-)

Philes · **Posted:** Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:14 pm **Post subject:**

Meta joke construction humor is rarely funny DF.

See?

DarkFool · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:05 am **Post subject:**

That wasn't mean to make you laugh. I am laughing at you for having read it. I find it quite humorous.

soviet314 · **Joined:** Apr 29, 2009 **Posts:** 10

not to disturb the offtopic conversation, but setting PHP up to send a single "read-only ban for X days" mail and actually lifting the useless IP ban or at least stating the read-only ban somewhere would have really helped and prevented this post. I'm sorry to illustrate my point about IP bans, proxys, TOR and user ID spam in this fashion, but this thread derails into nothing

DarkUnderlord, DarkFool, there is no point in using proxy lists. TOR provides every user with the possibility to make his internet access a proxy and an exit point for other TOR users. a sufficient number of exit points is run by households with DSL/broadband which don't appear in proxy lists.
additionally, a user needs 1 second to change the exit point. there is next to no limit on how often a user does that.

Arthgon · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:00 pm **Post subject:**

Is it just me, or did soviet swap another account?

DarkUnderlord · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 12:18 pm **Post subject:**

soviet314 wrote:

DarkUnderlord, DarkFool, there is no point in using proxy lists. TOR provides every user with the possibility to make his internet access a proxy and an exit point for other TOR users. a sufficient number of exit points is run by households with DSL/broadband which don't appear in proxy lists.
additionally, a user needs 1 second to change the exit point. there is next to no limit on how often a user does that.

Out of the 20 IPs you've posted from that I've just checked, 18 of them show up in proxy and/or blacklists. That means 18 out of 20 times you tried to post, your account would've been auto-banned. You would then have to re-register. If you tried to re-register with another listed IP you would've been blocked too and have to re-register again. That means you would've only gotten through twice with 18 failed registration attempts.

Generally, if you can connect to the port, everyone else has already connected to the port and if that's the case, it's already on a blacklist. The 1 out of 10 times you did get through wouldn't be a problem to deal with and you'll be spending a lot of time fucking around looking for that one open IP that isn't on any blacklist anywhere that allows you to browse before we knock it out manually and you have to hunt around again.

Oh and by the way, I can get a list of TOR exit nodes any time I want.

Philes · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 10:11 pm **Post subject:**

Shit, son, I'm pretty sure somebody just went and got TOLD.

DarkFool · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 5:40 am **Post subject:**

That was a very impressive yelling-at. Jlt, you're currently not-banned. Why not just lurk/be quiet for awhile, and hope it stays that way?

GrimmHatter · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 5:26 am **Post subject:**

Arthgon wrote:

Is it just me, or did soviet swap another account?

You have a glaring knack for stating the painfully obvious, I'll give you that. Don't ever change Arthgon.

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