hey what the heck Options

[drinksmokefuck]

Dee closed my topic, sadface. I'm not asking of anything, literally. Ill stop using this account and use a new one. I just ask that you guys don't ban it, and its not like im spamming porn like the great ***********

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Come on admins, this is an action that takes literally two seconds. Do it for him.

[mipadi]

I honestly can't remember who the f*ck you are. See, that's the problem with using multiple accounts: I forget who you are, and then I don't really give a f*ck about you.

[sixfive]

kevin ric3xboy kingdinguhling boss myassislikewow or something, uhh... hmmm

[superstitious]

Thing is, not only should we not do this because we make everyone else wait to change their name, but we should be warning you for making duplicate accounts when you know it is against the rules to do. If Michael and Natalia disagree and want to do this, that's fine. I'm saying no though. Sorry man. I feel bad and all, but you've sort of exhausted our patience. lol

[synapse]

You guys gave sean a reset when his username was f*ck

[DoubleJ]

yeah but kevin has had like 8 usernames this year alone.

[brooklyneast05]

why do you have to change every other day. just keep one screen name, it's not even hard to do. and go set up comments on your profile mother f*cker.

[mipadi]

Thing is, not only should we not do this because we make everyone else wait to change their name, but we should be warning you for making duplicate accounts when you know it is against the rules to do. If Michael and Natalia disagree and want to do this, that's fine. I'm saying no though. Sorry man. I feel bad and all, but you've sort of exhausted our patience. lol

Here's what I want to say:

"Okay, we'll do it, but don't make any new accounts or ask for a username change anytime soon again."

But here's what I know would happen in response:

8 minutes later... "Hey, I made a new account, can you close the old one and change my post count? kthxbai."

So I'm gonna go with Rebecca on this one.

[DoubleJ]

lmao kevito. What type of bullshit are you trying to pull on us eh?

[sixfive]

his ass is like wow no homo

[DoubleJ]

lmao all homo for you sh

[manny-the-dino]

Yeah I'm sorry Kevin but I'm going to have to go with Michael and Rebecca on this one. I'm not sure why you keep making new accounts. Just stick to one. Six months isn't that long of a wait to change your username. Plus you want your OM title back, right? If you keep making accounts, you won't get it soon because a) you keep making multiple accounts and b) it's like you're starting over again. Sorry :/

[drinksmokefuck]

well i get bored of usernames, not my fault i get OCD with this kind of stuff, well it is, but i didn't think it was that big of a deal. another thing, javonn is right, i am actually planning something like i always do, it was me that posted all the porn(rofl) during the pokefest, it was me filling up the tutorial queue, i was the one that stole JCs condoms so he accidently knocked up a fat white girl, it was me who baptized michael when he was a kid so he never passes 5'3. steven, you were never taking E, it was methadone, your dealer is my lacky, rebs, im sorry i gave you crabs, and chances are, theres a good chance natalie is gonna meet A1bassline in person and have sexual intercourse

[superstitious]

[sixfive]

i was the one that stole JCs condoms so he accidently knocked up a fat white girl

...

steven, you were never taking E, it was methadone, your dealer is my lacky

truth and lies in this post

[manny-the-dino]

LOL omg.

[brooklyneast05]

so much for bros before hoes

[sixfive]

he wanted it to feel better, bro.

[drinksmokefuck]

its ok, she aborted

[karmakiller]

Am I allowed to say that you're being a pain in the ass?

Yeah, it's not that hard to set an account as a dup, but if the admins have to do it every other week and for everyone who wants a new account it becomes a pain. There isn't any reason that someone can't stick to one account. You don't like your username? too bad. It's not like people around here look at your username and judge you (unless, of course, your username is "imstupid" or "republican4lyf"...)

I changed your username once because I didn't mind, and I had done that for a couple other people who asked. But you can't ask to have your usernamed changed all the time. One time deal.

[Tomates]

[mipadi]

[sixfive]

[drinksmokefuck]

oh wait

"imstupid" or "republican4lyf"

lulz, wheres dosomethin88 or whatever that bitch's username is




btw i wasnt asking you to change my username, but just to not BAN every account i make, cmon, only james was cool enough to have every account banned upon activation


also you liar, i thought you stepped down for a better life

[res8zenith]

if the person is willing to trade one account to gain access to another which is currently banned, i say why not? what's the harm in that? they've changed enough,

and if CB Admins really wanted to BAN people, they'd make sure that person can't register for a new account, so there's no real point in banning people when they can just make more accounts.

[karmakiller]

^ The only way to make sure that they can't register for a new account is to ban the IP address a person is using. We don't do this for multiple reasons, but a simple example would be people who log on using a campus computer (there's a lot of college age people here). If we ban a shared IP then anyone using that IP can't access the site. And a lot of people who create duplicates are sneaky and don't use only one IP address. Besides creating duplicate accounts isn't reason enough to get banned from the site, which is why there are "Duplicate" member groups and "Banned" groups.

btw i wasnt asking you to change my username, but just to not BAN every account i make, cmon, only james was cool enough to have every account banned upon activation
also you liar, i thought you stepped down for a better life

Not going to nitpick about the banning. But why should you get special treatment and be allowed to have duplicate topics when other people can't, mister?

also, no lies, I did step down, but nobody seemed to be modding Feedback.

[drinksmokefuck]

well ive been here long enough, i figure i should get at least something others dont

[sixfive]

preferential treatment tbh

[kryogenix]

I still don't get what the problem is with dupe accounts.

I suppose if you are using dupe accounts abusively, like using them to vote multiple times in a poll or something, then it's bad. But if you just got bored with your name, or want to get a fresh start, why is the dupe banned on sight?

[sixfive]

Maybe they pose a threat to the new world order.

[superstitious]

I still don't get what the problem is with dupe accounts.

I suppose if you are using dupe accounts abusively, like using them to vote multiple times in a poll or something, then it's bad. But if you just got bored with your name, or want to get a fresh start, why is the dupe banned on sight?

Understood, but really, why can't people just wait to change their name. I mean, that is really what this (particular thread) is about. I'm pretty cool if someone completely f*cks up their name change and will change it to something else. But in this thread, we're talking about a dude has asks us to change his name several times and for him to make duplicate accounts because he wants another name change is sort of insulting, you know?

And duplicate accounts have been more problematic than not. The majority of the duplicate accounts I've seen here have been used to spam so I guess you can say that those who have done so are somewhat responsible for that rule.

[drinksmokefuck]

But in this thread, we're talking about a dude has asks us to change his name several times and for him to make duplicate accounts because he wants another name change is sort of insulting, you know?

And duplicate accounts have been more problematic than not. The majority of the duplicate accounts I've seen here have been used to spam so I guess you can say that those who have done so are somewhat responsible for that rule.

No sorry Rebs, I dont see how it is insulting at all. I don't claim any mods to be incompetent or lazy. I make dupe accounts cause I dont want to pester mods with petty things. Its not like you don't IP check most new users anyway, as long as it matches up with mine, and usually its not hard to tell that its me. Btw, sorry about the gonorrhea too

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I still don't get what the problem is with dupe accounts.

I suppose if you are using dupe accounts abusively, like using them to vote multiple times in a poll or something, then it's bad. But if you just got bored with your name, or want to get a fresh start, why is the dupe banned on sight?

I don't get the problem either. I'll admit, I have several alts, but I never (read rarely) even have any reason to log in to one of them, let alone abuse them.

[drinksmokefuck]

They are afraid that if I get to make a shit load of accounts, then everyone else will. (kind of sounds like the republican's view of gay marriage), but if they IP trace an account and see its mine, I don't get what the problem would be.

[sixfive]

PETITION TO BAN KEVIN

[kryogenix]

The majority of the duplicate accounts I've seen here have been used to spam so I guess you can say that those who have done so are somewhat responsible for that rule.

The majority of people in jail are black, so should we ban black people from this website?

Why not enforce no dupes on a case by case basis? If someone is abusing it, it's grounds for banning. You can ban without IP banning, can't you? What is the purpose of a separate dupe group (haha that rhymes)?

[superstitious]

PETITION TO BAN KEVIN

Denied, even though he gave me gonorrhea.

Why not enforce no dupes on a case by case basis? If someone is abusing it, it's grounds for banning. You can ban without IP banning, can't you? What is the purpose of a separate dupe group (haha that rhymes)?

Hey, I'm up for discussion for just about anything and we can think about and discuss duplicate options but I have to tell you, I have yet to see a duplicate account that hasn't ended in spamming. I'd love to get additional opinions as well from community members and staff members.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

should we ban black people from this website?

Yes, no debate.

[brooklyneast05]

i don't think i particularly care either way. although i still don't get why screen names are such a huge deal and you can't sleep at night unless you have the one you want.

if people wanna discuss changing that rule i think it's a good thing to discuss. it wasn't a big deal until tung went through that phase of wanting to run around being a jackass, get suspended, make a new account and get back on here to continue being a jackass. i think that's when the rule was put in place because he was getting out of any punishment for his bashing and shit by just making a new account to have his warning level back at 0%

[karmakiller]

Admins will have to transfer warn level to the new accounts, so even if they don't have to put old usernames into the duplicate group, it's not like a person creates a new account and forgets about the old.

[superstitious]

Admins will have to transfer warn level to the new accounts, so even if they don't have to put old usernames into the duplicate group, it's not like a person creates a new account and forgets about the old.

That is definitely something to consider. I'm sort of thinking of the PokeSpam Fest (and I know that it wasn't just one person). It would have been warnings x the amount of duplicate accounts, if that makes sense.

I don't know, like JC I'm personally neither here or there about duplicates at the present. I do see the disadvantages from a staff perspective more than I see the positive though, to be honest but obviously since I'm one who may have to do some of the clean up, I'm probably a bit biased, which is why I like the idea of a discussion.

[karmakiller]

I don't really know why this is being discussed, because it will always come back to staff asking WHY and members asking WHY NOT.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Consider this:

Many successful forums (Facepunch Studios, SomethingAwful, etc.) allow alternate accounts.

[hypnotique]

Consider this:

Many successful forums (Facepunch Studios, SomethingAwful, etc.) allow alternate accounts.

Hmm those sites are also notoriously barbaric in conduct.

Actually, Many forums that I have seen DO NOT allow alternate accounts because its stupid to have people bounce from one account to another on a whim because they are "bored with that name for the week".

The point of joining a forum is to create a identity for yourself so to speak. People should be able to get to know you under one name for a while before one decides its time to change their name. That is the POINT in why there is 6 month bloody wait before you can change a name. Multiple accounts defeat the purpose of this.

[brooklyneast05]

The point of joining a forum is to create a identity for yourself so to speak. People should be able to get to know you under one name for a while before one decides its time to change their name. That is the POINT in why there is 6 month bloody wait before you can change a name. Multiple accounts defeat the purpose of this.

who cares. awful reasoning that no one cares about. why should we force people to keep a name for the sake of other people "getting to know them". makes no sense to me.

[karmakiller]

Consider this:

Many successful forums (Facepunch Studios, SomethingAwful, etc.) allow alternate accounts.

Sorry, but just because other forums do it isn't reason enough for us to. That doesn't answer why people want this to happen.

[superstitious]

Sorry, but just because other forums do it isn't reason enough for us to. That doesn't answer why people want this to happen.

Let's work with this one. How about an answer to why should duplicates be allowed, other than "why not?"

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Hmm those sites are also notoriously barbaric in conduct.

If you head to Facepunch's OIFY, or SomethingAwful's FYAD, then you're going to see some pretty barbaric stuff. We have our VIP lounge, which isn't quite the same, but is there for the same purpose.

Outside of OIFY, Facepunch has some of the strictest moderation of any forum out there. I've seen people get permabanned for too many misspellings in one post.
SomethingAwful's ten dollar registration fee keeps out morons.

And besides, even google thinks Facepunch is f*cking Incredible.
http://www.google.com/search?q=f*cking+incredible

[synapse]

My take on the duplicate accounts. Is that they're more trouble than their worth. It'd work if it was treated to a case-by-case basis. However, who has time to do that, if someone is making a new account each day. The majority, as Rebecca did point out was that the people that are using duplicate accounts are either to a) anonymously berate others, or b) spam anonymously.

I'm with Kevin about the username thing, I had mind changed, and changed it to something I liked at the time, and was over with a week later, though, I did wait for 6 months before I changed it to its current. For the user to be able to change their username when they want to by making another account should be fine, if the other account is disabled. It get's more troublesome to the admins, and it has glitches with the cb profiles when admins are changing people's usernames.

I'm kind of on the fence on this issue, because I've used duplicate accounts for both reasons, one to anonymously voice my opinions about the site in feedback. And also to spam anonymously. But if better moderation of these duplicate accounts are taken, such as someone requests to an admin before one is made, then the admin accepts the request, dupes the current account and lets the user use their dupe, I wouldn't see the problem. I don't feel the same way if you let one user have full rights on their 20 different accounts though. One at a time please.

[drinksmokefuck]

I have yet to see a duplicate account that hasn't ended in spamming.

Thats cause you banned mine before I could get the opportunity.

although i still don't get why screen names are such a huge deal and you can't sleep at night unless you have the one you want.

would you wear pink everyday of the week for 6 months

I'm with Kevin about the username thing, I had mind changed, and changed it to something I liked at the time, and was over with a week later, though, I did wait for 6 months before I changed it to its current. For the user to be able to change their username when they want to by making another account should be fine, if the other account is disabled. It get's more troublesome to the admins, and it has glitches with the cb profiles when admins are changing people's usernames.

I'm kind of on the fence on this issue, because I've used duplicate accounts for both reasons, one to anonymously voice my opinions about the site in feedback. And also to spam anonymously. But if better moderation of these duplicate accounts are taken, such as someone requests to an admin before one is made, then the admin accepts the request, dupes the current account and lets the user use their dupe, I wouldn't see the problem. I don't feel the same way if you let one user have full rights on their 20 different accounts though. One at a time please.

My cbspace isn't even set up, so regardless of the glitch, it would not effect me or anyone trying to contact me.

Ive have various reasons for changing usernames, but im not gonna share all of it. Ill treat you the same way I treat everyone else, if I like you, i like you, if your JCP, ill let you know you're an idiot. I tend to like feedback from people under anonymity even though its quite easy to guess who I am after about 2 posts. The thing is, like Rebs said, most people who spam usernames use it for spamming purposes. However, thats not what Im using it for. Guns kill people, but doesn't mean it should be outlawed.

[brooklyneast05]

if the pink shirt was nice, i might

[drinksmokefuck]

i believe that, so bad argument how about this though, lets say your stealing candy from a store and you got caught and punished, wouldn't you be sort of angry that the guy cares that much about a piece of candy

[brooklyneast05]

i duno are we talking about peppermints or godiva chocolate

[drinksmokefuck]

depends how much you think making new usernames is bad

[heyo-captain-jac...]

We're not even talking peppermints, we're talking about a jelly bean.

[brooklyneast05]

i don't think i particularly care either way.

[drinksmokefuck]

lol that doesnt really help either side of the argument

[drinksmokefuck]

how about this, ill stop making accounts or changing usernames if you promote me to staff

[superstitious]

Sushi staff?

[drinksmokefuck]

YES PLZ, i dont even need mod abilitys, i just like fancy title in bold red print

[gojira]

Sushi staff?

LOL

[Mikeplyts]

I don't think he'll be able to maintain that position for too long. Maybe 1 minute, 2 minutes tops.

[drinksmokefuck]

hey Mikeplyts, can you tell your mother to stop sucking my dick, its been 45 min and she hasn't made me nut

[Mikeplyts]

Are you sure it's her that isn't making you nut?

[drinksmokefuck]

oh shit nvm, i nutted, all over your moms face, but accidently got some in the eye, she might have to wear an eye patch

[Mikeplyts]

I know you're lying because she already has two eye patches. :\

[drinksmokefuck]

no im talking about your 2nd mom

[Mikeplyts]

Well, I don't really give a shit about my step mom so sure, I'll tell her.

[drinksmokefuck]

nah im talking about your lesbo moms

[Mikeplyts]

Wow, great comeback.

[drinksmokefuck]

k

[none345678]

Are you guys ready to shut the f*ck up now?

[Mikeplyts]

I am.

[drinksmokefuck]

of course you are, cause you got abbeys fat ass dick in your mouth

[Mikeplyts]

[drinksmokefuck]

can i make a new account without being banned

[synapse]

lawl. I think if you do, you'll get banned, with the addition of an increased warning level.

[drinksmokefuck]

lol sorry thomas my question was for current MODs

[synapse]

Dee already posted it somewhere in this topic

/rollseyes

[rnicron]

thomas, learn to type a paragraph. also, your opinion doesn't count, regardless of what you think you know. go back to being emo.

[superstitious]

Alright folks, we're giving this a go. There are rules you need to follow though.

Here are the guidelines:

Duplicates are now allowed in moderation. Please note the following rules:

Using a proxy IP address to register an account is not allowed. If you are caught doing so, you will no longer be allowed to create multiple accounts. If you use your duplicate account to break one of the Community Guidelines, your duplicate account will be removed and your warning level will be increased. If at any point you break a Community Guideline (even for something simple, e.g. spamming), the warning levels of all your accounts will be raised.

Impersonation of other members is strictly prohibited. Staff has been lenient about this in the past, but with the approval of multiple accounts, this rule will be more strictly enforced.

Staff may also revert to the previously stated Multiple Accounts rule if community members abuse the Duplicate Accounts privilege. We're being open to new ideas, so please don't make us regret it.

So have fun, but please try to be respectful about it.

-Edit: Closed and moved to Resolved. Please feel free to PM myself, or anyone else on staff if you have question about this.