Whoah!

[Henry]

Dire spammer?

Nah, just the Persistent Post feat.

 

[kirinke]

The number of Crothian's alts would give Friend Computer a migraine. Don't mention them please. He gets cranky when you do.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

My favorite by far is viagrakaufen. Bestpronoworld gets a special prize for trying to be like ENWorld. ôîòîãðàôèè gets an award for me having to copy/paste that name. WebPromoters gets bonus XP for being honest.

On my personal forums, I had to ban mahatmaghandi.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Nah, just the Persistent Post feat.

It's hard to muster up the spell slots to use that feat though. At least it's easier for priests who spam in this forum, since they're Divine Meta-spammers

 

[BOZ]

On my personal forums, I had to ban mahatmaghandi.

dude. that's just not cool.

 

[LightPhoenix]

We thought about that, but then decided to leave 'em so that nothing else could be posted under that name. Granted, most spammers create an account and leave 'em after hitting and running, but I've seen more than one instance of a spammer posting six or seven times in one day before we caught and banned them!

How many repeat offenders has ENWorld had though? I get where you guys are coming from, but if it's all in one day, I don't see how leaving helps except in the littlest way.

 

[Morrus]

How many repeat offenders has ENWorld had though? I get where you guys are coming from, but if it's all in one day, I don't see how leaving helps except in the littlest way.

It helps in, as you say, the littlest way, at zero effort cost; whereas deleting doesn't help in that littlest way, and requires effort. It's a no-brainer!

It's not like an unused account uses up any resources or anything. In fact, the time and enery I spent just writing this post to explain that is probably greater than the server resources used up by the accounts.

 

[Darkness]

On my personal forums, I had to ban mahatmaghandi.

An RPG.net admin recently banned puppies.

 

[LightPhoenix]

It helps in, as you say, the littlest way, at zero effort cost; whereas deleting doesn't help in that littlest way, and requires effort. It's a no-brainer!

It's not like an unused account uses up any resources or anything. In fact, the time and enery I spent just writing this post to explain that is probably greater than the server resources used up by the accounts.

Mwahaha, my master plan!

I really should change my title to "He's a no-brainer!"

I guess lately I've been in a more aesthetical mood as opposed to practical.

 

[James Heard]

Maybe you could alter the display and count page for posters to automatically not count or display people who've made less than 2 posts. I suppose it could startle n00bs signing on and immediately checking to see where they exist in the grand scheme of things, and lose some dedicated lurkers (as well as allow a few of the machinegun sorts of rapid posting spammers int) but you'd probably end up with a more actual count of how many people are using ENWorld too.