Roshambo, please read.

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(Don’t take this the wrong way; it's not an attack on you) Has Fri Wily done anything other than piss you off? Not accusing you of anything, just asking. I mean, i don't see what Fri Wily has done other than to be a bit obnoxious and challenging. Again, i am not accusing you of anything at all; i am just asking what Fri Wily has done. And if you are going to make this a public matter and allow everyone to read the posts regarding his being banned, then i believe it would be in your best interest to back up your reasons for banning him. Not only that, but it would be the fair thing to do. If he has compromised your sites security, then that alone would be means for dismissal in my opinion. However, if he hasn’t done anything of the sort then what exactly is the reason for banning him? Again, if you are going to make these matters public, then it's only fair to post all information regarding his dismissal. Which you may have done; and if so, then ignore what i just stated.

Note: i don't think these matters should be made public; instead they should be left between the moderators and the people in question. I think it's unfair to do it any other way. Not only that, but quite unprofessional. I know that you are having trouble with your e-mail system (as stated during our first confrontation), but if that's the case, then I’d suggest that you or someone else fix it so you can deal with these problems via e-mail. Making these matters public, creates a circus/mob like atmosphere; which is very displeasing.

 

[Roshambo]

Very well, and fair enough.

Issues of the board are kept on the board to let everyone know what's going on. Here's what Xotor and I have been looking at over the last few days:

1. jrp posted on the wrong forum. The little banter session here was nothing to get upset over, other than it had really nothing to do with Fallout, just a general bitch at RPG systems on the computer. That wasn't the problem; however the problem was that he posted not once, but TWICE on the wrong forum (RP forum). Which merited one warning though it happened twice.

2. Free Willy comes here spouting pure napalm. Usually, if there's someone new, and they start this up while knowing a good deal of things, then it's NOT someone new, particularly when it's their first post on the whole board system. It's someone 'pulling a hydra'. It's far too coincidental for someone to start flaming out of the blue and be from the same netblock, but with a different name. In which case, we check IP numbers, ISPs, emails. At this point, jrp had an otropunto.com address. Free Willy had a europe.com email account. If it was someone coming onto the board and flaming away like that, then they are sometimes banned outright, as if that's going to be the way they are going to make their entrance....

3. IP numbers were checked, and they fell into the same subnet block. This raises strong suspicions, considering that Free Willy comes onto the Fallout 3 board and their first post is to flame a blue streak. After on-site LARTing him, he went and registered a few more aliases to use:

eur0pa normal logan johnson poiuylkjh@europe.com
Free Willy normal logan johnson poiuylkjh@europe.com
Free Willy normal your security sucks poiuylkjh@teacher.com
FreeWilly normal your security sucks poiuylkjh@teacher.com
Willy is Free normal your security sucks lkjhpoiuy@hot-shot.com
Fri Wily normal Fri Wily rashomon@egypt7000.com

Hydras are NOT welcome here.

4. At the same time, about a couple of days ago, as the registering of all these names, jrp changes his email from otropunto.com to mindless.com. Note the lack of his posts, particularly when I demand an explanation as to how he got a 500 error when he tried to lock threads on the WebSite forum. I asked that the 10th. The email was changed the day after that, for some apparent reason, with no explanation given to my question.
Notice that hot-shot.com and mindless.com are the same email service, and the change and register of new account with the various other emails were about the same time.

5. Any mention of inferring site security being lacking, particularly when it comes to pulling hydras and bypassing bans, is enough to warrant a perm ban, entirely.

 

[Guest]

K seems kosher to me. Thank you for elaborating. Just try to make sure that everyone knows why you reprimand others when the subject is made public. That will allow us to see why they have been reprimanded, instead of wondering if they are being falsely accused (I trust your judgment, just saying that it will eliminate confusion… it can only help your case). Also, it allows us to not make the same mistakes as they did... overall it's just something that's good to practice i think. You have done that... but in segmented posts and most of us don't want to go searching for them. Again, thank you Rosh.

"Maybe she's born with it... Maybe it's MONOLITH?"

 

[Guest]

>K seems kosher to me. Thank
>you for elaborating. Just try
>to make sure that everyone
>knows why you reprimand others
>when the subject is made
>public. That will allow us
>to see why they have
>been reprimanded, instead of wondering
>if they are being falsely
>accused (I trust your judgment,
>just saying that it will
>eliminate confusion… it can only
>help your case). Also, it
>allows us to not make
>the same mistakes as they
>did... overall it's just something
>that's good to practice i
>think. You have done that...
>but in segmented posts and
>most of us don't want
>to go searching for them.
>Again, thank you Rosh.

I think the "ATTN: Free Willy" thread explains why pretty well now.

-Xotor-

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[Guest]

>Put that one post down
>Below, and then kept
>Making more accounts with
>His name as
>"Your security sucks".

This is what Roshambo stated in the ATTN: Free Willy post; Whereas, in this post he went into greater detail as to what exactly had been done by Fri Wily and others as well. I think the post above gives the users of this forum far more faith and confidence in Roshambo's ability to moderate. It shows that he is professional, fair and that his decisions are well thought out. He was able to back up his decision to ban Fri Wily with a substantial amount of proof and evidence. And since this is a public forum, if you fail to give a substantial amount of proof to the reader, then they might leave feeling as if Roshambo were a benevolent dictator who would ban people on a whim. Which he(benevolent dictator, but does not ban others on a whim)is since this is considered "private property, " however, if he were to act that way, then you'd find that the amount of people who use this forum would most likely drop considerably. Now, i think that most of your regular users wouldn't require any information at all... mainly because they know and trust him, as well as his abilities to moderate. However, some of the people who do not frequent this site as often as some of us might see that post and come to the conclusion that Fri Wily was wrongfully banned. I just think it's safer to go into greater detail when you publicly state that someone has done something wrong and will be reprimanded for their actions. That way you avoid any further headaches. By posting the message above, Roshambo explained why he banned Fri Willy, supported his actions for doing so and showed that he was being fair and proffesional. Only good can come from that.