Holo Federation Community
Front Desk => Announcements => Topic started by: Ross on February 16, 2010, 10:43:52 AM
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We've installed some anti proxy software to help prevent people accessing the forums via a proxy, we'll be monitoring to make sure no errors pop up but if any of you notice a problem or have difficulty accessing all areas of the forums please let us know. :)
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Lovely
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Will do Captain!
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You mean I can't hid behind 3 proxies and a fake name anymore?
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I'm afraid not lol... Though in the interest of being fare I'll come clean too, I'm actually a 78 year old woman called Bertha from Bulgaria haha :P
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LoL
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I'm afraid not lol... Though in the interest of being fare I'll come clean too, I'm actually a 78 year old woman called Bertha from Bulgaria haha :P
I knew it! All the nagging gave you away haha :P
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Oh you cheeky little... :P
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Haha.
So all those pictures were of your son? And all those cameras are in your sons room?
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LMAO
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I'm afraid not lol... Though in the interest of being fare I'll come clean too, I'm actually a 78 year old woman called Bertha from Bulgaria haha :P
I knew it the moment I heard you talk!
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Ah yes, I don't even hear it any more... what with the hearing-aide and everything haha.
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just curious why have you actully installed these? they aren't not much of a threat to us, and there are other reasons why people use proxy sites..
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Proxy sites are used by spambots to allow the same crawler to register on a board multiple times and post various advertisments that lead to dodgy content. In addition to this, several people whom have been previously banned from these forums have tried to use proxies to circumvent their bans. This prevents both of those.
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Well you can still use a proxy. You just don't use a well known or advertised one.
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Then A. how would said person know about it?
and B. this blocks access half the time on my PDA - WM6C, Iris browser, Wi-Fi Connection
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I'm confused about your first question, Do you mean how would they know if they are being blocked by accessing through a proxy? If its that then I asume a warning would come up.
I do agree though a lot of people use there Iphones etc to look on forums etc, On my pagan central about 30% of my members access the site through there black barry. Also I can no longer access this site at the local library because of there settings.
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Can you not just hire in extra, more trigger happy, moderators? :P
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I'm confused about your first question, Do you mean how would they know if they are being blocked by accessing through a proxy? If its that then I asume a warning would come up.
I think he was actually referring to Huskers comment about less 'well known' proxies.
and B. this blocks access half the time on my PDA - WM6C, Iris browser, Wi-Fi Connection
We've made some modifications to the setup which should prevent problems for registered members but will continue to effect members attempting to register from proxies.
We feel this will provide the best solution since it will prevent spam bots from attempting to register and prevent banned members from attempting to register new accounts via proxies to circumvent the bans on their accounts but wont cause problems for the other members of the community.
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Thanks Rossy :P