Indeed mate. Ironic.
Confirmed.
Amazing when you think about it - no reports since before the TGP influx. Credit where it's due, I'm frankly-amazed that the community endured all the FoS "freeballing" since mid January without submitting a single report. Quite an achievement methinks.
The nightmare I was having whilst sleeping was small potatoes compared to this dumpster fire.
I can dream bro', I can dream.
Hey, it's RT and as usual, it delivers.
I haven't spoken to JBT yet folks. Somehow I feel some sort of account-thinning may be inevitable.
By-definition, there are no fake accounts in this particular instance; each is legitimate in its own right, but I know what you mean.
It wouldn't make sense to swing the hammer willy-nilly in this case; that's not how a fair mod would handle this mate. Ideally IMHO, one would want to ban all but the oldest / most-active / least-trolly "dupes" (a balance of these factors) associated with an address. Deciding which is most-relevant / legit and to be kept will be laborious-and-tricky but I'm not ruling it out.
PSA:
I've built an extensive database of shared IP's these past few years. As indicated earlier, I may resort to thinning out the alt accounts based on this.
The trick AFAIC will be to do so without wiping users who's only "crime" is to have alts out altogether. There are plenty of these on both sides of the fence, so to speak, so it wouldn't be a partisan exercise, something I don't do anyway as most of you know.
To clarify further, I won't be selective as to the users themselves, but butt-hurt will be inevitable no matter how much effort I put into trying to minimise it.
Gonna sit on this for now. As almost everyone here knows, whilst I believe in giving peeps future chances at membership, I don't take the act of banning lightly.
An idea might be for members to take this thread as a heads-up that we'd like to see a move away from constant ad-hominem spamming and discourse; you're never going to win a debate that way anyway and as mentioned many times, it's ugly, puerile and a cock block to everyone's enjoyment of the sub-forum.