this is really beginning to suckFollow

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.

I know there is little they can do to stop them, it is just annoying how much they do these posts. In fact I doubt it is a plat seller, more like someone trying to be annoying. A plat seller would realize how fast bumping 50+ threads will get him banned, and figure out that his links are broke. It isnt worth their time to do what this idiot is doing.

That was one thing I was thinking with an IP ban, if they are dumb enough to do what they are then they may be dumb enough that they wouldnt figure out how to change their IP address.

This is effin ridiculous. EQ2 finally starts to gain some notoriety and these jackasses ***** up the entire first page. Assclowns, the lot of 'em.

On a different note:





You **** off Kao again?

Is it me and my tin foil hat speaking or has it been noticed by others that after the announcement made by allas that we are getting a major influx of these asshats?

/agree Old Blue-this is seriously annoying. I hope they can do something about this as well as in-game tells.

What about doing some sort of flood control on the board? I guess that won't prevent the 100+ overnight spams, but it might stop burst posting tools or something.

The level 60_70 chat channel is pretty alert to the spammers. Someone will report, "Spammer! [name here], add to ignore!"

Which is followed by others quickly typing /ignore [spammer name]. I've been hit only twice since all this began.

I tend to do the /report but then also do /petition, which I believe gains you the same thing as OBD is talking about on his two pronged attack