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    KellyinAvon

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    Below are the rules at INGO as well as the link to them on the Introductions and Greetings sub-forum. While most rules here do deal with the classifieds, we (the staff) recently made a change to rule #4 (the change is below: bold, red, underlined.) Please note this is not Rule #4 (Classifieds: price of the WTS item and pictures of the actual WTS/WTT item are required) this is the other Rule #4 (General Forum Rules.)

    Spoiler alert: there was nothing in the rules prohibiting shill accounts. Our Moderator-Emeritus Churchmouse would occasionally post, "Shill accounts are verboten" and that was that. Since there was nothing actual "chapter and verse" on the subject that has now been remedied.

    Please note: if you had an account in 2010 and left because it wasn't for you because of some of the things going on here... and came back in 2020 and have no idea what your username was? We don't care.

    If you set up 5 separate accounts so you can keep doing nefarious stuff in the classifieds after getting banned? That would have got you banned before, but now it's codified.

    Thanks,

    KiA

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    2) Language that would be inappropriate in the polite company of strangers is unwelcome here. (Inappropriate language in memes included.) Posts that are indecipherable due to the inability to translate thoughts into coherent written statements will be deleted without explanation.

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    4) As we can never convey a philosophy through a few rules, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit or delete posts and/or to revoke Membership. No Second Chances; No Argument; No Trial; No Way. This includes members who continue to post with the sole intention of disrupting the forum (AKA trolling) in spite of member reports and/or messages from the moderators. At best you may receive one warning from the staff. Political discussions are only allowed in the political forum so please keep this in mind since politically based comments/opinions are typically what cause the types of disruption that caused this rule to be implemented. Simultaneously maintaining multiple accounts/usernames (shill accounts) will result in being banned from INGO.

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    The rules for the classifieds are in the link below.

    https://www.indianagunowners.com/th...ssifieds-you-must-read-before-posting.509634/

     

    Mgderf

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    I'm glad to see the change myself, but I think the ban should be permanent.
    The way it appears worded now it seems there might be room for ambiguity.

    Oh yeah, "We have rules?":dunno:
     

    gassprint1

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    So because of those shill accounts, I'm guess you don't have the abilities to block ip addresses like some of the other forums?
     

    Cameramonkey

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    So because of those shill accounts, I'm guess you don't have the abilities to block ip addresses like some of the other forums?
    We do. But especially folks surfing on cellular connections, the traffic flows through proxies. So they all appear to come from the same IP. I see it all the time while investigating. I can think of about a half dozen IPs that if I banned, We'd knock probably 40 legit, upstanding users offline. So its not always that easy.
     

    d.kaufman

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    We do. But especially folks surfing on cellular connections, the traffic flows through proxies. So they all appear to come from the same IP. I see it all the time while investigating. I can think of about a half dozen IPs that if I banned, We'd knock probably 40 legit, upstanding users offline. So its not always that easy.
    ^^^^this^^^^^

    There's times where there can be 10+ members sharing the same ip address at the same time
     
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