The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

"Every man under my command owes me one, hundred, Taleeban scalps. And I want my scalps."

The basterds could single handedly win the war in the middle east for us.

Taleeban got nothin on Nazees and look what happened to them.

...So apparently Gideon was a sock and has been permanently banned...

Was he one of yours? Because you did an awesome job of hiding that one then.

w8wut...

I wish. I don't think I'd be able to pull off being that magnificent bastard even if I spent years practising.

Wait... the hell happened?

I would like to say that I guessed his password and gained access to his account for the second time and caused some shenamigans but unfortunately that is not the case.

I have sent Paolo a PM and should be receieving word whenever he next gets online.

This is what happens when mods get high.

On Life.

It would be nice if we could get an explanation for that...

Maybe he's using a university IP and someone else from the same school is also a member.

Yeah, that's pretty obviously not the case. If he has another account, Gideon isn't the sock account...

I'd like an explanation as well...

I don't recall a situation where everyone can be on the same IP. The same network yes, but not the same IP.

I sent her another PM. Ban gideon and our list of credible people who post often drops yet again...

Neither her nor Ushgarak will respond to me. They didn't respond to me when I enquired about HWKA's banning either.

Rex was the one who banned HWKA. You might have tried him.

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
I don't recall a situation where everyone can be on the same IP. The same network yes, but not the same IP.

Actually, this always happens, when two people share one connection to the internet. Got disconnected from IRC often enough because of that little fact...

Originally posted by Borbarad
Actually, this always happens, when two people share one connection to the internet. Got disconnected from IRC often enough because of that little fact...

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
what I mean is you can't keep a connection for more than a brief period while on the same IP

Erm? You can be online with the same IP for a pretty much infinite amount of time, as long as two PCs do share the same connection to the internet (e.g. a single router for an entire network). While the PCs are identified with different IPs by the local network, they would share the same IP when operating online, because the router is the only device that is seen from the internet, and therefore the only device equipped with an internet IP.

Hence it was suggested that Gideon might have been online at his University and somebody also online at his University (using the same router and thereby having the same IP) was online here too, resulting in two accounts being online with the same IP, which could be interpreted as socking.

In general, it's impossible to have two different connections to the internet utilizing the same IP - not even for a brief amount of time.