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Responding to spam, you came close to an accidental ban.

[Moderator2]

Within minutes of reporting posts in this thread this morning you start posting replies like these.

If you expect moderators to consider what you have reported, then don’t take action yourself by posting your own vitriolic replies.

Since you have such a dim view of these...

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The ‘phishing’ attempt was just that, thanks nukecad.

The server was down yesterday for some corrective action, which came about unexpectedly and was unavoidable.

I believe all is well now, but we would appreciate it if people could send me a PM if issues like that arise...

[Moderator2]

I’m not going to give away any details here, but I find that changing IP addresses, and even use of VPN, are more of a help to me than a hinderance.

[Moderator2]

IP addresse checks are only a small part of it, there are many more checks I make. But even in the possible situation of two people at the same location, if I see some kind of contrived posting in a thread then there’s still no excuse.

[Moderator2]

By far the most common use of aliases other than the common spammer or spambot, is with real people trying a sneaky advert.

The threads starting with ‘Can anyone recommend…’ catch my eye, they are normally followed by a different member offering advice on some wonderful company that...

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It's a little difficult to control unless you have some automated process or actively go looking for it. If I find that a long term member has more than one alias, and they have never used that in any dubious way, then I can’t see reason to take action. I did question once when a ‘long leasehold’...

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There are far more than you might imagine.

And by the way, the record is over 200 aliases, but that was a spammer.

I've banned over 5600, the bulk being spammers, most never get to post.

[Moderator2]

While I will allow people to have more that one forum alias, I will not allow that to be abused, an example here being post #32, HemelPlumbster asking a question of GrumpyGit when they are in fact the same person.