people can get banned from diyaudio.com?

[jadenlinkletter]

i was just looking through the posts and i noticed how billfitzmaurice has a banned title under his name in his post,, anyone have any idea on why someone like bill fitzmaurice, an almost legend in diy bass horns, is banned? blows me away, i built one of his designs and it was astonishing,, someone like that is very usefull to have around diyaudio.com,, anyways just struck me funny

 

[Cal Weldon]

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=592174#post592174

 

[Killjoy99]

You may (hint hint) find your answer by viewing the SINBIN forum.

 

[SY]

It disappointed me, too. I liked his horn articles in SB/AX, but some people can't seem to follow basic rules.

 

[planet10]

Bill could never get into the spirit of the board, treating it as a forum for advertising his product... then he went overboard with sock-puppeting. I, unfortuneatly never read his articles with the same respect again -- i found his last article quite over the top...

dave

 

[soongsc]

Bill could never get into the spirit of the board, treating it as a forum for advertising his product... then he went overboard with sock-puppeting. I, unfortuneatly never read his articles with the same respect again -- i found his last article quite over the top...

dave

Pardon me, but what is sock-puppeting?

 

[cowanrg]

Pardon me, but what is sock-puppeting?

correct me if im wrong, but sock-puppeting is when you create other accounts or aliases when you are sin-binned (or banned or whatever) to keep posting. basically, using multiple accounts on diyaudio.com

 

[planet10]

correct me if im wrong, but sock-puppeting is when you create other accounts or aliases when you are sin-binned (or banned or whatever) to keep posting. basically, using multiple accounts on diyaudio.com

More or less... anytime you create a 2nd account while you have an active one.

In one case Bill was replying to his own posts with a sock-puppet....

dave

 

[soongsc]

In one case Bill was replying to his own posts with a sock-puppet....

dave

Really don't know how to express my feelings about that in an elegant way!

 

[pinkmouse]

Really don't know how to express my feelings about that in an elegant way!

Neither did we!

 

[ocool_15]

so how do you decide someone is sock puppeting? They use the same IP address? Seems like a unusual thing to do in the first place but catching it seems nearly impossible to me...

Surprised about how many people there are that have been in the sin bin.

 

[Netlist]

With 35.000 members I think the sinbin figures are very modest.
I'm pretty sure many other forums ban more rapidly.

Comparing a person's post style is in many cases the determinant factor for finding double registrations.

/Hugo

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Talking to yourself on an internet forum: this must be shrink heaven !
Seen to many Chucky movies maybe ?

 

[phase_accurate]

There were people on this forum (or one specific person to be exact.... ) that could do this in a very refined way.

Anf this one isn't Bill Fitzmaurice......

Regards

Charles

 

[AudioFreak]

We have a variety of tools at our disposal to determine if someone is infact a sock puppet. The exact details of these tools shall remain unknown to all but the few that are allowed to use them.