Well, given how nasty Wario64’s (or whoever’s) current trolling has gotten, is it time to consider a more stringent registration process?

Admin approval (yes, some will slip through. But Wario tends to make a buttload of accounts at a time.)

Ban some of the bullshit free email domains (Guerrilla Mail, etc) if he’s using them. More legit sites like google don’t make it as easy to drum up 100 addresses anymore.

Needing to wait a week before being allowed to post. (not friendly to new users, but I would argue that they and we would be better off if they lurked and read other posts for a week anyway)

no posting images (duh. But it seems unlikely that the platform will support this? If it can’t be implemented, I would argue that links need to be clicked instead of embedded, as inconvenient as that is.)

limit of one post an hour, no creating new threads, etc? (no downsides to these)

Pretty standard stuff in this day and age.

I’m not sure what the forum software’s capable of, but I think they really need to find a way to IP ban.

Jeebus said:

I’m not sure what the forum software’s capable of, but I think they really need to find a way to IP ban.

I seriously doubt that our mods would have been incapable of doing a simple IP ban after all this time. He probably used his mom’s credit card to get a decent VPN. Some forums ban well known VPN hosts, but I kind of doubt we’re capable of that here.

Maybe a title character limit so he can’t create massively long titles.

Jeebus said:

Maybe a title character limit so he can’t create massively long titles.

Yeah. That’d be a good start.

Nah, he flooded Harmy’s threads with hundreds of anime porn (hentai or whatever) images. My suggestions apply site-wide. If it was just Off Topic I wouldn’t have given a shit. 😛

Stinky-Dinkins said:

How often does this dude flood the main page with that sort of nonsense? This is the first time I’ve seen it.

Check out General Star Wars Discussion right now, and this

contains hentai

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens-1986-Edition-I-need-help/id/49573/page/6

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Who the fuck is Wario64?

I guess it’s commonly believed that HansiG was a sock account of Wario64, who was a master shitposter. And when Hansi was temp banned, OtakuWarrior joined, and when that was banned there was Johnny_Sasaki and then there was OtakuWarrior2. So it’s pretty likely this is another of his accounts.

So what’s that guy’s deal, anyway? Did he start out as a normal user and just got pissed when people made fun of him for liking the prequels or something?

Fuck, didn’t mean to post. I’m as bad as yhwx now.

towne32 said:

So what’s that guy’s deal, anyway? Did he start out as a normal user and just got pissed when people made fun of him for liking the prequels or something?

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/952096

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I don’t think admin approval or one week wait times for new users are good ideas, it would probably discourage legitimate new registrations.

Anyway, the approval thing is ridiculously common on forums these days. I don’t think it would be an issue, as long as there were mods actively responding to the requests.

Again, I think the wait time (whether it’s a week or a few days) is a good idea for new users in general. Send them an automated PM that says that they’re welcome here and we encourage them to read our rules and project pages and whatever. Maybe let them post in some sections but not all? They should definitely not be able to create threads or make 25 posts in their first hour.

Jeebus said:

towne32 said:

So what’s that guy’s deal, anyway? Did he start out as a normal user and just got pissed when people made fun of him for liking the prequels or something?

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/952096

Yeah, I’ve been around for his posts. Just didn’t know if there was anything that made him start acting like such a loser.

Is it just me or is it a huge neon warning sign when a member has non-ironic Hayden as an avatar?

Tyrphanax said:

Yeah, something needs to be done. There aren’t enough moderators online at this time of day.

0 is slightly fewer than enough for this matter, yes.

To me 20 posts sounds better.