All,
A large swath of trolling users have just been banned. If you were swept up in the latest round of bans and feel it was unjustified please email me at:
cary@fairfaxunderground.com to plead your case.
In addition to the individual bans some sweeping bans have been issued as well, including:
- All FDCServers.net dedicated server ranges
- Comcast cable modem customers in the Richmond area (Sorry but you were 95% trolls)
- Warren County's outbound firewall
I am very close to banning these outbound firewalls as well which will affect multiple users:
- Fauquier County's outbound firewall
- Raytheon's outbound 'DCA' firewall
If you are a contributing troll from one of the two locations mentioned above please desist immediately before you ruin it for everyone else.
ALSO from now on any thread or post which reveals or seeks to reveal a poster's real life identity against their wishes will be considered a personal attack and moderated as such.
The personal attacks (especially in the Off-Topic forum) have become a huge detractor and will for now on be handled in a stern manner.
ALSO I am currently evaluating disallowing ALL off-site includes. This means that you would no longer be able to post an image from another site by hotlinking to it with the "img src" HTML method. If I implement this method the only way to add a picture to your post will be to use the "attach" method (thereby directly hosting your image on this server). This will prevent IP address leekage to outside users. This is an extreme move and is still being evaluated but I wanted to give you all the heads up.
This extreme action will only be taken if I can figure out a good way to "whitelist" some especially popular media hosting services that do not reveal IP addresses such as: YouTube, ImageShack, imgur, etc.
I'm also very concerned about legitimate threads in the Fairfax General forum becoming flamewars and disrupting the legitimate posters. Expect to see much heavier moderation of threads that stray from the original poster's intent.
Questions? Comments? Requests? Let me know.
- Cary
--Founder/Admin FairfaxUnderground.com