Dealing with the recent annoyance

So as a few of you may have noticed Seadart, our own personal troll has taken it upon himself to try and fuck with us yet again. Honestly it's not a major problem as of yet but it can probably and likely will just get worse. Right now it's just a bit of annoyance and some extra work from me and Greyon. We are currently attempting to find a way to put a stop to his shit.

Neither me nor Teh Elgee are perfect, and while I can't speak for LG I myself am a bit new to this whole forum management thing and a few things about the internet that most people know about I'm still a bit ignorant on. So any suggestions or information that could help in this endeavor would be much appreciated.

 

you can also set 24 hour wait period for new mems to post.

 

Right now a member needs to be approved by either me or LG to post

 

I could appreciate if you don't generally ban Tor, as I might have to use it in the close future.

 

School?

 

It's actually a project with a friend, a experience to give someone total anonymity on the internet.
Tor was a possible solution.

 

His response?

 

Wait, we have our own personal full-time troll? Cool. We must be moving up in the world.

 

You really want to fuck with seadart give the mods and admins on sb the ip and emails he has been using to get on qq. He will then have all the sockpuppets he has on sb banned and probably get a several day ban on sb as well. That's what the mods on SV did to set.

 

Also how the fuck is he getting past needing admin approval? Is he hacking the site?

 

Easily. Spam 350 registration requests and have 325 be obvious Seadart expies with the other 25 looking normal.

Just curious, isn't there a method to get the his computer's MAC address and then just ban that?

As far as I know the MAC is hardcoded into the hardware itself, changing it would require buying new hardware.

 

We have a troll? Good thing I'm not a goat-farmer.

 

This doesn't scream seadart making a new account to troll at all Bi?

 

Hate to break it to you but if that happened I would ban all of them. Cause that's a really obvious attempt by seadart to get on this forum.

 

That is the most general description of the process. The idea is to flood the mods with invites and keep their attention on the obvious ones so that the ones that look like a normal request slip by. It would involve multiple email providers, lots of proxies, and some real dedication if he doesn't have the knowledge to make a program to automate it.

If he doesn't, his dedication to being a troll is rather impressive. Annoying as all hell and makes me wish I had the knowledge for a counterhack to alter his BIOS settings to make his comp fry itself, but still impressive.

Note that it should be obvious that I have no relevant knowledge in how hacking works or if that's possible to do remotely, I mention it because I fried my own comp in doing so without knowing what I was doing. Luckily it was a fairly cheap one, but I know it can be done on accident so doing it on purpose should be nasty.

 

Is anyone besides me kind of pissed that Bii let seadart on the forum? I mean look at his email at his latest account and what he posted. Pretty damn obvious it's him.

 

Look at this. Look! This is obviously seadart.

 

Which account is it?

Also, the mods have to be careful about not blanket-denying applications. It's one thing to not be allowed to post, but membership allows read privileges for the NSFW section, by far the most popular part of the site, judging by the recent topics section. A good portion of the members here have 0 posts, and only sign up so they can read the quests here. It's why I joined, at first.

@Nightblade
Who? Robot? I doubt it, for some reason. Not sure why... but it's just too obvious, if that makes any sense.

 

Refuge in Audacity. Make it so blatantly obvious that it can't be him because it just too obvious. Like registering a new account named Dart_of_the_Sea or something similar.

 

There is a method that could mark his computer for us but it seemed to invasive since it would mark everyone else's too. Security for liberty and all that.

I suppose we could possibly start contacting the new members and ask for existing past accounts on other sites to contact to help verify identity as not being Seaderp...

 

[me=theweepingman]scratches head[/me]
I'm happy admin/mod is serious in their works, of course, but background check? Really? I mean, it seems like it will inconvenience you as well..

 

if you do that make sure to explain why it's being done. people will be less offended and/or more cooperative if you explain the situation.

 

For some reason, I can't access the irc... is something going on with that regard?

 

Why does Seadart even want to do this? It honestly seems like a lot of trouble for very little "reward."