A Way To Remove Scammers

Peppered · Aug 30, 2011

I found this idea here: http://shadowscripting.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=155521#p155521

If you don't wish to click the link, it says:

As of the time of this post, ShadowScripting.org has added a system to weed out and block many forms of Proxy, TOR, and other ways through which scammers may attempt to access this site.

While we do understand that some people enjoy using such proxies to browse these forums, the amount of accounts using them for valid reasons is vastly overwhelmed by the amount of accounts using them to steal from the community. For this reason, in an attempt to lower the amount of scammers among the free market, many have been blocked.

I'm positive that we have 100% more scammers on this website. This would phish out many sythe accounts, thus it will reduce the scammer population by an estimate of 50%. Making Sythe.org a more safer, better overall place to trade.

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iDefineU · Aug 30, 2011

I'd say 10/10 Makes sense.. Proxies.. VPNs.. everyone has access. I'd say even over half of sythe's members are scammers.

x339 · Aug 30, 2011

This is on the DNS I believe. There are plenty of valid reasons to use a proxy, this isn't going to happen.

Peppered · Aug 30, 2011

x339 said:
This is on the DNS I believe. There are plenty of valid reasons to use a proxy, this isn't going to happen.

Wrong, It isn't. Look at the rules, read them before your post. Thank you for waisting our time.

Imagine · Aug 30, 2011

Wasting your time... hes just offering feedback..

Anyways, his point is valid, there are plenty of other reasons to use proxys.

theGuitarist · Aug 30, 2011

Don't support.
Sure proxies can be used to ban evade etc. but I do believe there are alot of people that might need a proxy to access this site. I have seem many cases where people had no choice but to use another gateway to Sythe.
Just don't see this happening. Still it might work on other smaller sites though but Sythe is a huge marketplace with hundreds of members.

Anyways each IP can hold only one account as well which goes for proxies as well.

WiseFcape · Aug 30, 2011

Imagine said:
Wasting your time... hes just offering feedback..

Anyways, his point is valid, there are plenty of other reasons to use proxys.

I agree there are valid reasons for proxy's but it is also an open invitation to people who get banned just to come back to the community for more scamming. Then they are banned again.. o wait there's more proxy's.

I'd support this, if someone needs a proxy that bad then maybe the mods can work out a solution to allow some proxy's and only allow the people with valid reasons access/let them know which one's do work.

Obviously that would be a bit of work but so is banning hundreds of vaders, and doing many many scam reports.

I i dds ii · Aug 30, 2011

it could work i guess and i would like to see it take place in the near future

Halo3MLG50s · Aug 31, 2011

No support; would put mods to work a little more; proxy's are needed for some cases.

x339 · Aug 31, 2011

Peppered said:
Wrong, It isn't. Look at the rules, read them before your post. Thank you for waisting our time.

It isn't on the DNS list but I have seen it suggested and denied before. Don't get angry at me for offering my opinion, not everyone is going to bow down and support you.