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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2011, 11:54:15 am »
Have there been any thoughts about allowing people to have two passwords?
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2011, 12:19:25 pm »
That way if they log on with one they cannot do any posts or anything, just watching things and the other will actually let them do stuff :D

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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2011, 12:46:39 pm »
Or if they enter the wrong password >3 times or so it reports it, pm'ing the user or something.
"Somebody tried to access your account" or the like.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2011, 01:16:25 pm »
Yeah, 2 passwords was exactly what I was thinking O_o you would have the normal user set password, then a second one, given via pm at request. if both are not right after 2-3 tries, BAM, no logging in for an hour or so...

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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2011, 01:18:07 pm »
Then the real user comes along...
Or maybe to log in after that one would need both passwords.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2011, 05:08:31 pm »
wow... I knew I am a troll was a troll, though I am not a troll, because it's I am a troll who is indeed a troll, unlike me, who is not a troll unlike I am a troll.

...more seriously, that's pretty bad to have another account to rate up your posts.  zzCoRRoDe rated up about 3 posts of mine a while ago, but that was acutally my friend, and he was just being nice. 

So, are you confident "i am a troll" was the same as TheGame?  Some people actually do come back in a new accoutn to either up their old accouts in some form or just to start with no bias from the community.  Though, trust me, it sucks when you're blamed for it even when you never made another account.  On TKZ I was always so pissed that people were calling me a troll that made a "new" account to start over again, and they even just responded to my projects calling me "Hallo1198" (the other troll guy they thought I was) and "shut up troll" that eventually, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy wishing their site would just die and lived up to be a troll after all. 

While I don't want that to happen to TheGame, I DO trust DJ's opinions enough to know that he wouldn't have come to a decision with no proof.  I actually wondered what happened to that "TheGame" guy, and who he was.  And for him to sign up with a name personifying our site's biggest meme, he would probably have to know a lot about the site, much more than a simple lurker would.  So, my guess he may have been one of those people from a while ago that apparently attacked omnimaga so much it had to close in 2008, or he was banned sometime after that.

So, good decision DJ, I'll stop my rant :)

Also, what do you think happened with Bwang's account?  I really doubt he would have done that... maybe his kid brother or something? (stupid guess)
Well at least the good thing is that zorrocode was a different person.

And yes I am confident Thegame is i am a troll, because both account posts were similar (the first half with good grammar and the other half of the post with plenty of typos), his posts content were similar, both were a bit trollish, although Thegame was worse a few months ago and when i am a troll logged out then Thegame logged in a second or two afterward, the two IP addresses were the same. In addition to that it was quite suspicious that i am a troll logged in just to rate 14 Thegame posts up then Thegame logging in immediately afterward and ask "Why is my respect so high?" a few days after he complained it was low.

As for trying to start with no bias from the community, I think the best way for that is to actually improve. At least on Omnimaga it's the best way, because we do not hold grudges and we make sure members won't hold any, either. Trust me Ashbad, during the first two or three weeks you were active here, some staff had a negative opinion about you, which were not helped due to two UTI posts in particular. But you improved greatly since then and now these same staff seems to enjoy talking to you and I don't even hear anything regarding your past behavior since a few months. This is a proof that we don't hold grudges. On many other forums, unfortunately, once you screw up, it's over: there is always a group of people who will live in the past. No offense to Cemetech because they're a great site, but I still have some bad memories from the treatment Netham45 received there in late 2006. By Fall, that year, he had improved, yet people still did everything to make him leave and one former admin even banned him for no reason. I am glad this stuff stopped happening afterward there (or at least, it did not happen to such extents), otherwise I would never have started recommending the site again.

As for people posting under a different nickname, I myself ended up posting under a different name back in late 2007 on Omni, UTI and MaxCoderz, because of grudges held by some people about how I moderated on Omni, but I was discovered because we can't hide ourselves behind another screen name. Eventually someone will discover, by your way of chatting and stuff. IMHO I think the best thing to do is to apologize, make sure to not screw up again, then if some people really want to hold grudges and cause you harm, then it's best to just leave that place. Hiding yourself can be seen even more badly, because people dislike when people are not honest and most forums have rules against duplicate accounts, anyway.

As for Bwang, it is someone from his family, like his siblings/brother. As for who Thegame is, we may never know, but one of his post was rather suspicious and made it sound like it might actually be one of our banned users.