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Postby Satomi » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:24 pm

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I Agree.


No kidding. Especially since I don't have nor can afford mIRC.
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Postby Corran » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:31 pm

Satomi wrote:No kidding. Especially since I don't have nor can afford mIRC.

The link to the client I posted is free. So far I'm liking it.
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:04 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:The only thing wrong with this IRC plan is that it's easier for members to pretend to be someone else =/


That's not true at all. On IRC you can get a log of someone's IP. On aim, someone can join claiming to be anyone they like.
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Postby Moonlight Soldier » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:04 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:The only thing wrong with this IRC plan is that it's easier for members to pretend to be someone else =/


That's not true at all. On IRC you can get a log of someone's IP. On aim, someone can join claiming to be anyone they like.


That's not what I meant, I could easily log on to that chat with the nickname "Absolute Destiny" since it doesn't require a password. Whereas you needed an account to use AIM. Not everyone has access to IP addresses :P

I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?
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Postby BogoSort » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:08 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:That's not what I meant, I could easily log on to that chat with the nickname "Absolute Destiny" since it doesn't require a password. Whereas you needed an account to use AIM. Not everyone has access to IP addresses :P


Actually, on the IRC network that we're using there are services where you can protect your nick from being used without a password. If anyone's having trouble on getting them to work, feel free to message me and I can help with it. But that still doesn't stop people from signing on as Absolute-Destiny or 4B501U73-D3571NY or any permutations, but that's what ops are for.

And on IRC, ip addresses are available to everyone. A simple whois on the relavant nick will reveal such information.
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Postby Castor Troy » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:24 pm

How are you guys going to deal with imposters who come in using other people's names who don't go to the irc chat at all?

Plus what about people who use proxies to change their ip's? :?
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Postby Corran » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:29 pm

Ips are logged in the forums in every post you make. If it looks to be an imposter they could cross check it I suppose.
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Postby )v(ajin Koji » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:43 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?


I like that idea.
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Postby Kalium » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:45 am

)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?


I like that idea.


There was talk about that, but it would have been problematic to execute.
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Postby )v(ajin Koji » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:57 am

Kalium wrote:
)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?


I like that idea.


There was talk about that, but it would have been problematic to execute.


You could say that about everything on this site :P

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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:24 am

We'd have to set up the irc server ourselves and have it refer to the sql database of usernames.

1) That's complicated
2) The web hosts doesn't allow IRC servers to be set up on this box.

Makes things kinda tricky like that.

In any case, I'm happy - this is much more trackable than the AIM chat was and the ops can deal with any really evil trolls, it doesn't matter who they are - it's just that if we know then they can be punished here too.
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Postby Moonlight Soldier » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:39 pm

Are you sure? (Chat Technicality inept) the one I'm referring to is called a 'chatbox' and works through Internet Explorer (I think).

Though I'm glad you set it up to ward off a lot of the idiots, there were many people on AIM that I had on ignore. I just feel leary of being impersonated ^^;;
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:42 pm

Register your nick and you'll be fine. There's a rule against user imitation, so if it happens it will be punished.

The same thing happened on the AIM chat - sppanda made a huge amount of aim accounts to spoof other users, and you couldn't kick ban those :)
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Postby ZeroSSJ999 » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:48 pm

I for one am glad that we are losing the aim chat, but then again it is kinda sad, ive been in the chat for 2 years, and boy it was fun, but then again, some of the side affects that aim gives us, randomly booting everyone in the rom out, not telling us when people enter the room, not allowing us to post link suddenly, with IRC, none of that stuff, and it is easier to share files among eachother, and if some immature people that really dont need to be in existance around us, we can boot them, for having a huge ego... :P


I vote me as a 2 year vet of the aim chat as an OP :lol: :lol:
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Postby Lyrs » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:47 pm

another feature i don't use. great job anyway.
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