... but still can't create an account.
A few years back I was banned from another forum, nothing extreme, I apparently broke their rules around victim blaming.
I used to like engaging with others on the forum so attempted to re-join a while back with another email account I had. Different username. No joy. I concluded the forum admin perhaps had a way to trace the IP and if it matched a banned person's IP, the account creation wouldn't go ahead.
However a few months back I installed a VPN to further protect my online activity. Yesterday I thought I'd retry creating an account on this other forum. It seemed to have worked, however today it's obviously been removed as I can't log in.
At the end of the day it doesn't overly bother me, however I'm intrigued. Surely with me behind a VPN and using different email and username, they'd have no way to trace my IP now, or would they?
I wouldn't have thought your average forum would have measures to that extent to stop people rejoining, unless it was NASA's forum or something!
A few years back I was banned from another forum, nothing extreme, I apparently broke their rules around victim blaming.
I used to like engaging with others on the forum so attempted to re-join a while back with another email account I had. Different username. No joy. I concluded the forum admin perhaps had a way to trace the IP and if it matched a banned person's IP, the account creation wouldn't go ahead.
However a few months back I installed a VPN to further protect my online activity. Yesterday I thought I'd retry creating an account on this other forum. It seemed to have worked, however today it's obviously been removed as I can't log in.
At the end of the day it doesn't overly bother me, however I'm intrigued. Surely with me behind a VPN and using different email and username, they'd have no way to trace my IP now, or would they?
I wouldn't have thought your average forum would have measures to that extent to stop people rejoining, unless it was NASA's forum or something!