Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:03:20 01/24/06
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On January 24, 2006 at 18:21:46, Graham Banks wrote: >Even if this is the only term that I moderate, I'm hoping that I'll be able to >say that I've been part of a team that saw forum changes initiated in order to >get rid of multiple signups, fake accounts and the trolling problem. > >Regards, Graham. Of course you hit the nail on its head. No really new member would even think about going into such flames. He had more to do with understanding the forum. The misuse is proven and obvious. I am so far especially happy that for the first time in my history on the net I could read someone having the same clear thoughts about such a fake. To me it's so trivial but up to now I was alway in a minority because everybody else seemed to believe that it could be insultive if I suspected such violations. But as a chessplayer I could only shake my head because simply logically it wouldnt make sense if we took for a moment the other/opposite hypothesis for such a behavior. The case here is perhaps very important for the whole topic because for once I am NOT the target of such a fake pseudo. Usually someone the like comes and bites me without hesitating although nobody has ever seen him before. (Never before under that fake name!) Hail to those people who finally could stop such misuse. As I offered I am willing to participate if we decided to clarify identities with phone call examination. I am ready to do that for the German part of this forum. Let me also add that all elections are invalid with such multiple acconts of always the same people. I would warn everybody to think about this solution: we let someone write a message and then permit the publication via direct control by a mod. Such a tech would disturb the forum traffic psychologically because it looks weird if someone - apparently a fake - is allowed to write test results but not personal opinions. But exactly for these flames opinions he has created his fake account. So in the end nothing is won and to the normal members the whole control process simply looks odd because mormal people cant even imagine how crazy the needs are for a sort of psychopath. A psychopath doesnt exploit the confusion in a forum but in the first place he creates the confusion himself only to then exploit it himself. But such cases are rare. Fake accounts are much more frequently used to build up a pressure group, a sort of clique to support a certain commercial interest. Three people could well organise the whole traffic in favor of a certain new program. This is why this must be stopped by all means. It hurts the value of such a forum. It creates lies which should be taken for the new truth.
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