Re: Caution, this is gnarly...
> > He wasn't kicked off the Boston board.
>
> I guess that's true if one ignores the fact that "parklane"
> has been banned from the site completely at least a dozen
> times.
>
Cab, when someone gets the the "R-I boot", isn't that done by denying that person's IP number from further contact/registration? In other words, if you became an R-I member on your home computer, and then got banned sometime later for making silly/ridiculous/offensive posts....wouldn't that mean that you couldn't get another R-I account from your home computer, and that you'd have to get another R-I account from a different computer, like at work, or maybe at the library or local coffee shop, or wherever?---Using a different screen name, of course!
So if a person has access to many computers during the course of his or her day (at home, work, a friend's house, the local library, etc. etc.) he or she could get banned from a site like R-I and still register for another account on R-I, and then another account, and then another account, and so on, and so on...........correct?
And what's more, with multiple computers at one's disposal, someone on this R-I site could have as many as 20 different ACTIVE screen names (well, at least in theory, anyway)---am I right about that?
Hmmmmm.......
So coolidge is right. Chances are, there are some active/current R-I members who have been banned from R-I one or more times in the past, wouldn't you agree?
And, what's more.....like I said a moment ago, I'm sure that there are active/current R-I members with more than one screen name. Which means, in theory, you could have a person start a thread, and then when one or more other posters disagrees with whatever it is that he has stated, he could easily come back with several other screen names of his own and during the course of a day (or two, or three), he could "defend himself" (or come to his own rescue, sort of speak) by giving the (false) appearance of having all of these other posters agree with whatever it is that he has said....you know, so as to give other posters the impression that...."well, you see folks, all of these other posters agree with me, therefore I must be right".....but in fact, "all of them other posters/screen names" are his!! LOL!!--Now I realize that that sort of thing probably doesn't happen here on R-I too often.....but, in theory, it could happen, am I right?