Spam in /ooc and /auction

[President]

Originally Posted by Nocte [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This opens the flood gates for using the ban hammer for personal vendettas and other abuse. Even if it's never abused, the perception will always be that it is, because that's how people are.

IP bans aren't really effective; even without getting a proxy, a new IP address is very easy to get through completely legitimate channels.

In some ways it does, yes, but there are easily a few trustworthy people here, especially some that already know developers. Doesn't even have to be 10-15 people, 5.. it would still help the GM's from wasting time.

Not sure what you mean by "a new IP address is very easy to get through completely legitimate channels." Getting a new IP address assigned from your ISP isn't necessarily a quick task unless its dynamically assigned and your modem/router is lucky enough to pull a new one on reset. Using a proxy is much easier.

[Malrubius]

Edited OP list based on the responses so far. It seems we have a good collection of possibilities here. I am sure some combination of them will take care of most of the problem.