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I guess it's a case of "the candle that burns twice as bright..." Posters that whether consciously or not always stay in the spotlight are more prone to have their blunders noticed by everyone than we average joes.
 
Dr Eggman said:
BAHAHAHAHA, god the irony.
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A Pretty Panda said:
Interesting, do you know of any specific examples?
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I'm seeing 408 bans for ban evasion/dupe accounts from the period covering 2004/2012 :p It's safe to say an awful lot of people reregister!

But in terms of dupe accounts...
We don't have enough manpower to cover all the actual threads that need moderation, let alone worrying about that stuff. 99% of the time when someone gets banned for having an alt account, it's one of three things:

- Someone is banned and immediately starts using an alt account they had previously registered, doing the exact same thing that got them banned.
- Someone is permed and re-registers with an account that is so clearly an alt they get picked off shortly after account approval (BannedUser -> BannedUser2 or NotBannedUser or some other clever variant of their original username)
- Someone successfully reregisters and uses the site, and during a temp ban for some random issue, it becomes obvious from checking the user's account that they're a ban evasion.

We don't go out of our way to worry about people being banned in 2004 or 2006 or 2007 and re-registering years later as successful posters. Shit, EviLore was what, 16 when he took over GAF, and he's in his late 20s now. Tons and tons of people we've permed are genuinely different, better posters now in future incarnations. It's just not something worth spending effort investigating too closely.

That being said, the Terms of Service says:
n. Each accepted member is granted one, and only one, username. If you are caught using multiple usernames, you will be subject to immediate and permanent banning of all accounts involved.
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So duping or ban evasion will always be bannable, obviously.

GloveSlap said:
All the most eccentric, hilarious, and entertaining people get banned eventually. Its a shame really.
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Function of the forum getting huge. much easier to have joke characters and persistent trolls when the forum gets 100 replies a day and the regulars, who all know each other, can laugh about it than it is when the forum gets 10,000+ replies a day and many of the members don't know or appreciate someone's schtick and it derails or interferes with other conversation. I think you'd find this with most forums that get larger.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Shit, EviLore was what, 16 when he took over GAF, and he's in his late 20s now.
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Oooh, I always thought Evilore was the creator of GAF :o Who's the maker then?
 
Yoshichan said:
Oooh, I always thought Evilore was the creator of GAF :o Who's the maker then?
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GAF were the forums for Gaming-Age, which was founded by Jim Cordeira ("Jim" on NeoGAF). After the forums grew a bunch and became a big financial expense for GA, they needed a place to go. A few different hosts were used, including EZboards. When that became unfeasible, EL bought/took over the forums, which were subsequently renamed and relaunched as NeoGAF.
 
SteelAttack said:
Posters that whether consciously or not always stay in the spotlight are more prone to have their blunders noticed by everyone than we average joes.
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This is my observation as well. People that read and post dozens of times a day in every single topic seem to eventually get too comfortable and forget the rules still apply to them. You can kind of watch specific posters tread the line and you know it's going to bite them eventually.
 
Fuck. I need to educate myself. Thanks guys!
 
My favorite alt guy was GunbladeV/X

Dude gets banned and not 10 minutes later comes back with his alt and complains about the ban.
 
worldrevolution said:
Trust me.. this shit is as far from real as it gets. Now that's real talk.
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That's not true though. I met Corky, KAOz, Keen, Evilore and some other GAFers a couple of days ago, and I touched them. I can with confidence say that I've never touched Zeus or Athena.
 
I've touched Zeus. I gave him the ride of his life.
 
ReturnOfTheRAT said:
People post about Neogaf at multiple forums. They take this too seriously.
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Yeah haha I only stayed on gaming for the last few years but once I came to ot I realized there were a lot of subcommunities on and off the site, people hanging in chats or on facebook.. I honestly didn't know. I had never even heard of opaages until like 2 weeks ago.. and then I checked it out.. And then I realized what it was.. Yeah...
 
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