Dear bugmenot users.

[Xtreme2damax]

Another Bugmenot account?

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=40827

Can an admin please blacklist the site from Bugmenot? Mamario will probably have to do this unless someone else (another admin?) has ftp access.

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Ok obviously they're not going to listen, so until mamario can blacklist Bugmenot I will be banning Bugmenot accounts as they are discovered. Despite any legitimate uses, Bugmenot can be used as a tool to evade bans and circumvent registration by spammers and trolls, warez kiddies etc.. Bugmenot also violates the one account per person rule, that no more than one person may use the account.

Dear Bugmenot users, please create your own accounts if you want to continue posting on this forum.

[Squall Leonhart]

addended the original post with xtreme's

[Xtreme2damax]

I just went through and banned all accounts listed on Bugmenot, I checked there to verify which accounts were Bugmenots before banning.

Rest happy for now, I suppose.

[Pio]

you can also blok your site in bugmenot: http://www.bugmenot.com/report.php

[Squall Leonhart]

we know, but it requires server access as the method requires a file to be placed on the site.

which for what its worth, is an illegitimate requirement to blacklist a site from an unwanted service.

[Ftaghn]

Since you insist, I will do as you ask and instead use the method that existed before bugmenot.

I have made a garbage account to make a single post that will never be used again, wasting my time to make it and your time to delete it, and had I not used a garbage email, probably resulted in spam wasting more of my time.

Merely using a different account should not allow a banned person to evade the ban, unless you are only using an account ban and not an IP ban. Even if it does due to some oddity in the forum software, they could just as easily create a dozen garbage accounts without relying on bugmenot.

The majority of bugmenot users are people who value privacy or anonymity. Another reason is that many forums display large, annoying registration nags, hide adult content for legal reasons, or restrict features to lurkers. We are not "trolls" and if one of us were, again, an IP ban solves the problem. Furthermore, your contemptuous quotes around the word "service" are invalid. It is indeed a valuable service to its users, you just don't like it.

[Squall Leonhart]

Quote:The majority of bugmenot users are people who value privacy or anonymity. Another reason is that many forums display large, annoying registration nags, hide adult content for legal reasons, or restrict features to lurkers. We are not "trolls" and if one of us were, again, an IP ban solves the problem. Furthermore, your contemptuous quotes around the word "service" are invalid. It is indeed a valuable service to its users, you just don't like it.

Please, Get the fuck off the internet.

its not a service, its an annoyance to legitimate webservices and site administrators.

[mamario]

(01-11-2011, 12:06 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: Can an admin please blacklist the site from Bugmenot?

dolphin-emu.org is now blacklisted

[KarstenS]

(01-24-2011, 12:20 AM)Ftaghn Wrote: an IP ban solves the problem

As there are countries, where users get dynamic IP adresses (like Germany, where static adresses do cost extra money), this is no solution.

[Ocean]

Registration should always be as painless as possible.

Username - pass - confirm - optional email - catcha verification that you are not a bot.

Anything more will frustrate a lot of new users on many sites, and they will rather not join at all.
Especially if someone just wants to ask something once or make a minor contribution, spending 1-2 mins on a registration, activating through email etc. is too boring.