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Originally Posted by Stevie

yeah but now spam is hidden, why would they make a new account just to see the spam forum and then get banned a few minutes later?

I want to read spam
*makes new email and account*
banned

next day

I want to read spam
*makes new email and account*
banned

who is sad enough to do that everyday

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I can think of a few people....

Sorry, but why wont younger people post in spam?

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Originally Posted by Stevie

I don't have a static and I got banned all the time I made an account once when I was banned. Didn't even post. A mod just looked at my profile and BOOM

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It'll be because your browser keeps the cookies, which contain your usernames, last visit etc.. so I presume they have a vBulletin addon that creates a new thread and notifies the moderators that you have signed up again. With a new IP and cleared cookies, it would be more difficult for them to find out who you are.

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Originally Posted by Moh

It'll be because your browser keeps the cookies, which contain your usernames, last visit etc.. so I presume they have a vBulletin addon that creates a new thread and notifies the moderators that you have signed up again. With a new IP and cleared cookies, it would be more difficult for them to find out who you are.

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That would be a nice add-on I will need to investigate into that, but I am certain cookies are cleared when you logout.

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Originally Posted by Moh

It'll be because your browser keeps the cookies, which contain your usernames, last visit etc.. so I presume they have a vBulletin addon that creates a new thread and notifies the moderators that you have signed up again. With a new IP and cleared cookies, it would be more difficult for them to find out who you are.

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It's all cold hard investigation but usually people out of place are easy to spot!

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Originally Posted by Jin

That would be a nice add-on I will need to investigate into that, but I am certain cookies are cleared when you logout.

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I sure think it'd be good as at the moment most of that stuff is done by long investigation, something we have some mods which are very good at though.

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Originally Posted by mynameiswootzeh

basically jin says something and they have to make excuses for reverting things theyve done in the past.

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That is indeed how being co-owner works ;)

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Originally Posted by Stevie

yeah but now spam is hidden, why would they make a new account just to see the spam forum and then get banned a few minutes later?

I want to read spam
*makes new email and account*
banned

next day

I want to read spam
*makes new email and account*
banned

who is sad enough to do that everyday

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It happens.

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Originally Posted by Hecktix

PAPOY was hidden for a reason yes but I don't think it was hidden with very good justification, there's nothing stopping a paedophile signing up to this forum whether they are aware of us having a picture thread or not.

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The registration isn't really relevant, if a pedophile can view the PAPOY forum without registering then they probably won't register, however they won't register to view the PAPOY thread because they'd have to accidentally stumble across someone mentioning it, then again I doubt they'd even realize what PAPOY would mean. Hence the advantage to hiding it if you're worried about pedophiles :P