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New Forum Rule - Trolls, Alts, and Bans

BrettPCGSBrettPCGS Posts: 159 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Hey all,
 
We did a bit of sleuthing and we’ve found the troll. 
 
Today the accounts:
 
@Wabbit2313
@PedroP
@ZippyZip
 
Have all been permanently banned as they are all the same user. 
 
If you take a look at the comment history you’ll see an embarrassing pattern of this user using multiple accounts to instigate issues on the forums. 
 
Having to police stuff like this is frankly embarrassing for the community as a whole.  It’s also a massive waste of time.  All of the moderators of this forum have essential roles that are instrumental to positive improvements at PCGS, but instead, we waste time on stuff like this. 
 
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New forum rule:
 
No alt, alternative or spare accounts.  One account per member, no exceptions. 
 
If we see you actively using more than one account we will ban the secondary account.   I’ve noticed that many of you use alts to strategically bump your own posts.  That stops now as well. 
 
This rule will be posted in our stickied forum rule post shortly. 
 

Brett Charville --- I work at PCGS

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    JBKJBK Posts: 14,788 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for that! Great work!

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    maplemanmapleman Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Score one for the good guys! I still can't like Etc.

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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

    WOW, didn't realize so many alts, and just to bump a post. :s

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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,539 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, I saw three personalities.....all the same person?

    bob :)

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 22,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crazy stuff! :#

    My YouTube Channel

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    ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow.

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    1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting, thanks for fixing this even though it was a waste of time that could have been better spent, as you @BrettPCGS have said, . :smile:

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Multiple personalities and not just mere multiple names. Interesting.

    All glory is fleeting.
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    DiggerJimDiggerJim Posts: 406 ✭✭✭✭

    Who would have thunk it!!

    Just way too much time on their hands I guess.

    Ok back to diggin.

    DiggerJim

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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AUandAG said:
    Wow, I saw three personalities.....all the same person?

    bob :)

    @Moldnut said:
    "I’ve noticed that many of you use alts to strategically bump your own posts."

    Love to see them get called out too.

    Really... Are they called Alts or Shill Bumpers? :p

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    CatbertCatbert Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ApTwWRQNw
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    marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 20, 2019 11:01AM

    Wow is all I can muster here.

    Pretty pathetic if someone has to have 3 alts - must have real issues besides the fact he needed to talk to himself and keep THREE identities yikes!

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    goldengolden Posts: 9,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you.

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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,380 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And it was Good.

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    I knew it would happen.
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    HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome work @BrettPCGS @HeatherBoyd on ferreting out the alts!

    There should/is a way to prevent this from happening in the first place but that would entail a instituting a “new user application” process.

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    cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 5,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ty

    Many happy BST transactions
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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 20, 2019 1:20PM

    @Hemispherical said:
    Awesome work @BrettPCGS @HeatherBoyd on ferreting out the alts!

    There should/is a way to prevent this from happening in the first place but that would entail a instituting a “new user application” process.

    I wish we had the option of posting our city. One member on another forum lives 5 mi away from me and we were able to meet. It helps to know a poster's age too.

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    AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I feel so much cleaner now :)

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    chesterbchesterb Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you! Collectors need a positive place to hang out and discuss their hobby. Alts and trolls dont positively impact a discussion. Don’t people have better things to do with their time?

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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 7,831 ✭✭✭✭✭

    wow!! now that's a twist!!

    Thanks!

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    stevebensteveben Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    weird!

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    BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fantastic! Thanks for caring enough to keep this place active and healthy.

    When I was the administrator of an unrelated hobby Internet forum we were able to identify and block members using the same IP address for multiple accounts. Perhaps there's a way to do this automatically to avoid all the drama and time waste. The only issue I could foresee is when members of the same family or same organization (coin shop) log in from the same IP address.

    It takes about 50 legit members to overcome the effects of 1 troll.

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    mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was wondering about the Spanish as it was too "book" as in written in English and then using an on line web translator, translated word to word into Spanish, copy and pasted.

    It did not "flow".

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    coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 10,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crazy day today

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    CYEP. GFETE!

    Crazy yet excellent progress. Grinning from ear to ear!

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    santinidollarsantinidollar Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice work, gang!

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    RedglobeRedglobe Posts: 594 ✭✭✭

    Are some people that bored or unhappy to create all that drama???

    Rob
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