Culver's M1 Carbine Forum

[browningautorifle]

Is it possible these people have more than one identity on line? That has been done before to stir things up and stoke the fire. That way one can cause a lot of trouble without really insulting anyone? I found the whole arguement useless myself. I do have an M1 here with a green receiver. I don't even care what caused it.

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[Badger]

Is it possible these people have more than one identity on line? That has been done before to stir things up and stoke the fire. That way one can cause a lot of trouble without really insulting anyone?

Yes, they can ....

To guard against it, requires the addition of several layers of add-ons to the off-the-shelf version of vBulletin used by the new Jouster forums. As a result, they are still exposed to similar problems they had originally with the old software that collapsed, although vBulletin is an improvement overall. There's really no way of telling whether the discussion described is the result of electronic multiple personality disorder, or simply two anonymous Internet egos going at it. The latter simply requires effective "fair, firm and friendly" moderation in a timely fashion, which when done properly, most people get the message and if they don't, they usually get banned or go elsewhere voluntarily.

When we handled the interim hosting here and people started moving over to the temporary forum, we originally caught dozens of CSP members who had been using two and sometimes three user names. Apparently it was for no other reason then to personally attack other members, or start arguments by posting to themselves (their alter egos) to create controversy and start flame wars for sport. We got rid of them all (banned) and from time to time we do continue to see this kind of attempted registration get caught in our specialized software traps, which detect 90% of these multiple user name (same person) registrations.

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Badger