ROFL - Rep has infected The Den.

Tipmoose · Post by **Tipmoose** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:46 pm

I don't think I've seen anything more comical in my life. Someone just posted a practice report in The Den and got a page full of replies containing "Rep" "Rep for you" "Mega rep" etc. Oh, this is so freakin funny I can barely stand it.

I had to poke Ray too, since he's now giving out Casino Cash for practice reports. I asked if there's any way we can have some rep to go along with the cash. I expect Growl will smack me down shortly. But this is so darn rich I can't even begin to describe how much I love the fact that this crap is biting them on the PAY BOARDS.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:57 pm

I saw that...the practice report wasn't even that good...I didn't post it over here for that reason (that it wasn't very good)

Tipmoose · Post by **Tipmoose** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:58 pm

Thats funny, hater....I didn't post it over here for the exact same reason. ROFL.

MinGator · Post by **MinGator** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:03 pm

does the practice report have to be real. i'll go post that some guys in O&B ran around, some threw a ball, some caught them, there were some exercising and stretching. now gimme my casino-cash bitch.

radbag · Post by **radbag** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:23 pm

:lmao:

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:31 am

I've got a new alias over there, but I haven't posted yet. I think I might've avoided the proxy detector, but it could just be that they're not looking for it.

Toothy · Post by **Toothy** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:21 am

So over it.

Tipmoose · Post by **Tipmoose** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:26 am

does the practice report have to be real. i'll go post that some guys in O&B ran around, some threw a ball, some caught them, there were some exercising and stretching. now gimme my casino-cash bitch.

That's precisely what some people are doing in the sticky thread Ray put up. Bah hahahah.

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:36 am

Hmmm... Nope, they got me. I was banned for "IP Mask." That tells me that they either have a list of known proxy servers that they check against or they are able to tell if someone is using a proxy. I even turned javascript off (there is a way to tell if someone's behind a proxy using javascript).

Interesting.

a1bion · Post by **a1bion** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:06 am

Meh. F those guys.

MinGator · Post by **MinGator** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:02 am

so if you choose to surf the web behind a anonymous proxy server for whatever reason you are not allowed to register and post at GC?

interesting.

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:06 am

so if you choose to surf the web behind a anonymous proxy server for whatever reason you are not allowed to register and post at GC?

interesting.

Every time I have tried it, they have caught me, no matter how crafty I am. There may not be any way around it. When I email them to ask for an explanation, they don't respond.

I think I'll take my wife's laptop to some place with free WiFi and register from there or go to the public library or something. They may only check on registration, first post or any post. But I haven't gotten past the registration stage yet so I don't know.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:11 am

I am constantly running Tor and not getting banned

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:36 am

I am constantly running Tor and not getting banned

How long ago did you register? Back when I registered "DaJacker," I used Tor and posted both with and without Tor before the most recent purge.

How often do you post?

I would guess that they now check upon registration, upon first post and possibly on every post, depending on how anal they want to be.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:40 am

I still have just my primary account...so I registered way back when...but I've been running Tor for a while now.

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:49 am

Oh. I thought your primary account got banninated.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:53 am

It did, but then Growl called me a day or two later and apologized for being unfair and inconsistent and reinstated my account for Insider and sports forums purposes, but kept me banned from the pub, too hot, farkatorium, etc.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:49 pm

twodaparty chimes in [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lmao.gif[/img]

Originally Posted by AdamGator View Post
Anyone can go to their user control panel and see who repped them and for what post. This board gets way too cluttered with meaningless stuff. I know some people enjoy it, but I don't like spending 5 minutes scrolling through 5 pages of posts about rep and cc just to see if there's anything worth reading. Needless to say I'll still be doing it.

Word on the pub making rep useless. You can definitely tell who spends time in there and does render it absolutely meaningless. I say each member should only be able to give out a limited amount of reps per day or something, maybe just one. It would be nice to know an insider by the rep points rather than who is from the pub.

Anywho, carry on...

I completely agree. There should be a separate rep calculated for Pub posts. I want to see who is getting repped based on post content for things that are actually related to Gator sports rather than someone getting repped for talking about their favorite dish soap or whatever you folks discuss in the Pub for hours a day.

sirhoppsalot · Post by **sirhoppsalot** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:29 pm

^^hahahaha

DocZaius · Post by **DocZaius** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:59 pm

UPDATE:

I just checked one of my old fake email addresses, from which I emailed GatorCountry thusly:

Banned for IP Mask? WTF?

Growl actually replied to this one:

IP Lookup Results

Here are the results of your IP address lookup request. Please note that the accuracy of the Geo-Location information may be inaccurate. For US based IP addresses 85% of the results shoud be within 25 miles. To see how inaccurate view the poll results. Please take a moment to respond to the poll with how close the map is for you. Click the push-pin for the IP address's information. If you have any comments or suggestions please contact us.

A traceroute and a visual traceroute are also available through our IP Tools.

Lookup IP Address: 89.212.107.113

Hostname

89-212-107-113.dynamic.dsl.t-2.net

Geo-Location Information
Country Slovenia
State/Region 09
City Hrastnik
Postal Code
Latitude 46.1461
Longitude 15.0814

So, it MAY be that all they do is manually run a traceroute on new signups. If the traceroute indicates that a proxy from a foreign country has been used, they assume it's something nefarious and ban the user.

Of course, that may just be his idea of illustrating that I was hiding my IP, but I would think that he would've said something different if they were using some kind of automatic detection software.

urapnes · Post by **urapnes** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:43 pm

it's gotten hard for me to read the den. i remember a time when i could go there and get solid info in most of the topics. now, however, most of it is "good report", "rep for you", "man lands on the moon".

i don't even post over there anymore. if anyone sees me post, it's one of my buddies who i gave my login to for the insider stuff.

IHateUGAlyDawgs · Post by **IHateUGAlyDawgs** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:01 am

yeah, the Den is terrible.

Of course, it is the offseason right now, and there will probably be more discussion right after the spring game or when football actually starts.

If it doesn't improve then I may never post on GC again.