[GrannyMae]

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dude,

sounds like you have a SEVERE axe to grind with this guy for some reason.

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I know about the guy who deacsoft is talking about, he really is a troll. His goal is to create chaos here, loves to make dumb posts. Its either that or the guy is retarded. I think he is the only guy deacsoft ever wanted banned if it makes a difference.

deacsoft - The ban tool is never really a permanent punishment, these guys always come back in one way or another. Our hope is that getting banned makes these problematic users wake up a bit, often it doesn't make a difference of course. If he is returning and acting as a part of the community you should look the other way, but of course if he continues to be a thorn in the community's side you should continue to ban him. Over time he will either wake up or grow bored of his trolling, unfortunately thats really your only options if the ip level ban doesn't work.

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another option is for the deacsoft to make public that this new posting name is an incarnation of a perma-banned poster that is working around his ban. make it clear that anyone intentionally having a discussion with him, or replying to any of his posts, will be temp banned. obviously the key word is intent. if someone unknowingly responds, then latitude can be shown. however, after time, this poster will give up after he can't get anyone to acknowledge him.

iirc, mat had to do this once in the zoo a long time ago and it seemed to work.