dirges the Irrelevant wrote:
Time for an IP ban I say.
Chances are all plat sellers ARE actually IP banned (don't know for sure though) HOWEVER, IP banning is basically worthless unless you ban a whole range of them, which will make it so legit users can't come to this site. For example, you could IP ban me, and I would be back in less then a minute, 2 tops. Proxies and Dynamic IPs are killers of IP bans, and you got to immagine if "average joe net user" knows about em, so do gold sellers. We are talking about who know how to write (or know people who probably) write bots, network many PCs together so someone can run a whole party of people, run (probably) THOUSANDS of various accounts, write forum spamming bots/scripts... do they really not know about proxies and dynamic IP addresses?
How would YOU feel if it turned out the gold sellers were posting from your city, and in order to ban them, the whole city had to be banned? I bet you'd be pretty pissed, I know I would be. So would the (again probably) hundreds, if not thousands who come here from your/my city.
Sorry if it seems like i'm picking on you, its just IP bans are really so in-effective on forums and such. Now, banning MAC addresses, THAT is effective. BUT, I HIGHLY doubt alla collects THOSE (and I don't even think it is possible/legal to collect them, since each NIC has a unique one it is EASY to track) so IP bans really mean nothing.