[VadeRetro]

Indeed, I don't know how the Admin Mod's ascertain that a person is here under a false identity - but evidently they do figure it out rather quickly.

I seem to be having trouble getting off of this topic, despite an earlier declaraton. LOL!

Probably duplications in the ISP packet info. Some sort of batch job might be scanning the data base regularly looking for such. I know that sounds CPU-intensive when you think about going through 80,000 items comparing them all to each other. The job can be low-priority so it runs in the background. Or maybe the mods only check (manually) when they get a ping or notice something themselves.

If a person uses a different computer and a different ISP in the second registration versus the first, I can't imagine how you would tell definitively.

[Alamo-Girl]

Ah, thanks for the insight! I will now also withdraw from the subject so it can be concluded.

[Aric2000]

On my other Forum, your IP address is automatically logged as soon as you log in.

If you are banned, then your address is banned as well, normally when you sign in, if you are on a static IP, then you will automatically get the boot, whereas if you are on a normal ISP, where your IP changes, Only the LAST 2 groups of the IP change, there are normally 4 groups in the IP address. If you are on the same provider, your first 2 groups are ALWAYS the same, so they have a pretty good idea if it's a banned poster or not.

If you are on a very popular ISP, it makes it a little tougher, but a poster will get scrutiny by the moderators and will most likely give themselves away, it's just a matter of time.