Trolls and Open Proxy

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Join Date: Oct 2005

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Reputation: aeroguy is an unknown quantity at this point

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aeroguy

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Trolls and Open Proxy

Mar 28th, 2006

Just curious how the fellow forum owners deal with open proxies and spamming trolls?

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Join Date: Feb 2002

Location: Lawn Guylen, NY

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Reputation: cscgal is just really nice

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cscgal

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Re: Trolls and Open Proxy

Mar 28th, 2006

Make sure it's required to confirm email address upon registration. Many trolls don't like to register on forums where they know it's possible for their ISP to be contacted if they are bad. Also, it's very helpful to have a good team of moderators from around the world (ie different time zones), who can be on the site 24/7. Constantly, quickly deleting post after post by a troll will eventually cause him or her to lose interest.

Dani the Computer Science Gal
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