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User: embayemelekin
email: embayemelekin@hotmail.com
Justification: I have written books on Mormonism
IP: 99.248.16.150
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User: embaye
email: mussieizaz@gmail.com
Justification: I have written books on Mormonism
IP: 99.248.16.150
I didn’t find much on the email search but I did find hits on the parts of the email addresses before the ‘@’
embayemelekin:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1487700,1487738 ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1487700,1487738 mussieizaz:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2151993https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2151993” class=”bbcode_url”> I only dig like this when the justification text isn’t stellar. I’m including it here in case they try to create a few more logins.
I think if they try another account attempt we should block by IP. I agree. I haven’t done that in the past just because IPs change often. There’s the unlikely scenario where an ISP issues an IP, we block it, then the ISP assigns the IP to a new person that has good intentions coming here… and the person we blocked gets a new IP and tries again.
The later is much more statistically probable that the former. Banning an IP isn’t a perfect solution but sometimes that is the only recourse.
I chicken out and leave them for you Nibbler. I get suspicious too often. Thanks for catching them. Good job. Honestly, if I had found what you did, I would have banned them by username, email address, and IP. I am fine with seeing if they try again, but I also am fine with blocking the email address and usernames. I know mostly home users have dynamic IP addresses and they do change often. In fact, back in the day when I had DSL I purposely changed by IP address all the time just by turning off the modem and turning it back on. Nowadays I have Spectrum internet and my IP never changes, and in fact they won’t change it even by request. If you check my home IP from where I usually post it will give you a small place in northern Pennsylvania, which is where the actual cable comes from and where the “hub” is but I live in a small place in New York about 10 miles away from there. Here’s where the issue came in and why I know they won’t change it: That small place in PA is in a different television market area so if I sign up for something like Hulu Live I don’t get my local channels that are in NY and about 30 miles away, I get PA channels that are 60 miles away and don’t do my news/weather/sports. And Hulu’s (or DirecTV Now’s) way of knowing where you are is IP address – and they won’t do it another way even when they clearly know my billing address. And I also post from work sometimes, which is another story entirely (and also shows up on locators as quite a distance away). I know, I just told you a bunch of stuff none of you care about – I’m just saying I would have (and have) done what Curt says and blocked the whole shebang. In this particular case two different (probably disposable) emails were used, and I do recognize that for some (and maybe some more savvy people) IPs do change. I think you’re fine NIbbler, and I don’t have a problem with how you handled it and it does appear as though they gave up. I do think sometimes blocking IP is necessary.
Thanks for addressing this. I agree with how it was handled.
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