A change in status for the chatbox

(25-04-2011 04:10 )iloveMegan Wrote:  

(25-04-2011 01:14 )Deb x Wrote:  Anyway, the more I'm learning about this, the more I'm becoming convinced it's only a matter of time before someone dubious takes advantage of the way it's set up.

Takes advantage in what way? Even if a formerly banned member was to create a new account with the separate Chat section, they would still have to abide by the rules, so what would they have to gain?

That’s exactly the sort of scenario I’m concerned about. During my time on here, I’ve occasionally received PMs from members which have been fairly disgusting. I’ve ignored them, and mostly, those members have been subsequently banned for inappropriate behaviour on the main forum anyway.

Now, they can come back and jump straight into the chatbox under another name: could be something they’ve made up, or they could use someone else’s name with a good posting record, presumably . If they’re in the chatbox and start bombarding me with filthy, extreme whispers, then yes, the mods will act, obviously that hasn’t changed.

But my point is, before, at least I had a chance of suspecting they were likely to be troublesome so I could put them on ignore straightaway, before the whispers started. As you say, they do have to abide by the rules, but that only comes into play after the offences have been committed.

The thing they have to gain with this new system is a completely clean sheet. If you’ve been up to no good in the past, and suddenly there’s this extra opportunity to erase your history, then that sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I do understand that the multiple-identity people have been doing this on the forum for ages, but now there’s a whole new venue where this can be exploited.

I would be interested to know if you, as a chatbox mod, have the ability to quickly cross-reference the forum and chatbox IPs; I’d think that would be essential under this new system.


Thanks for explaining about tsurugi - not my place to comment on that ban, but there’s probably some room for clarification of the chatroom rules which do state “the chatbox follows the same rules as the UK Babe Channels forum” because the way you’ve explained it people can do what they like on the forum and still use the chatbox.