Why are people who can't be bothered to register allowed to post or start new threads?

@Mods:

Why is this trolling fest still going on? The posts were reported, but the retards are still allowed to spout their bulls*it.

By the way - I think only registered members should be allowed to post messages on the board.
It would decrease the amount on trolling significantly.

I think everybody except the trolls and the owners of PF would agree.

I agree with this idea, too. Let people read the general forums here, but register to post. Very common practice on most boards.

And as pointed out, google indexes everything on here and why should someone's search lead them to junk posts.

You guys still not quite got the hang of freedom of expresion yet have you......

Mods?

Because shy/reserved guys should have the same rights as forward ones?

Just because people don't register, doesn't mean they're not useful in providing information to other members. Many guests have helped in the genealogy, ancestry forum, the language forum, history forum and other forums about Poland.

Many are just passing through, and provide good information in certain threads, and some become members in the near future. It can also be said that a few are just trolls who come here to flame others but the same can be said about a few members who have already registered.

Fair enough. Thanks for the answer.

But at least you can ban the members who cause trouble, you can't do that to guests unless you block their IP as well. And that doesn't always work, because of dynamic IP addressing.

Registered members can and do post trouble too. In general, Vincent's reply above is how we feel it should be done on PF.

I asked the same question when I registered. An old hand suggested that it was because Admin made money from google ads. Any truth in that, Admin? Or doesn't google care how many hits you get? Don't get me wrong, good luck to you, but if only registered members were allowed to post, it would stop at least some of the crap.

There are too many valuable posts made by non-registered members (for some reason they don't want to register) that we still allow them to posts. Besides, there are classified sections and it doesn't make sense for posters to register just to post one classified ad and never appear here again.

It hardly makes sense for "guests" to be allowed to post once, disrupt the forum, and never appear again (under a particular username, that is - who knows how often they return under another "guest" username) but you still allow it ;)

I still think it might be about filthy lucre. I asked about it but my question was neatly sidestepped by our illustrious leader.

I've never seen an advert on here.

Adblock Plus FTW :)


You know something, I'm surprised we don't have a Stalinist image of him waving to us instead of that image in the top left corner... lol. I wonder if they accept bony towarowe if you become a "Gold member"? haha

Merged: Trolling by unregistered users

Am I just imagining it, or are we getting more and more trolling from unregistered users? Most of the posts by and threads started by unregistered users seem to be being made by either banned users or users who operate via a legion of usernames.

Can anything be done about this? Will anything be done about this? Or do we have to just sit back and watch a potentially very useful and helpful forum be destroyed by a handful of determined (mainly racist) trolls?

I kinda agree with you here. Guests shouldn't be allowed to start new threads.

Registered users start trolling threads too and some of the best threads have been started by unregistered users (who also can be banned if needed). So there's no clear connection on the quality of posts based on the registration status.

Have you seen this thread? polishforums.com/life/public-masturbation-n ow-allowed-sweden-work-poland-68169/

Yes. The question is still legitimate for some groups of people. But since this user appears to have used more than 1 username (which is not allowed), his other usernames have been added to that thread.

Is it possible to limit an IP address to a single username?

No; one IP may be shared even by thousands of people.

Yes, but probably not within the span of a few minutes.

so Chris_Bradbury =HerbertFountain =jon357 right, admin?

lol

Yea, PF has 1000s and 1000s of posters.
Most forums worth their salt will ban trolls who use the same IP address, why can't ye?

I'm not saying ban people with the same IP, but it's pretty easy to ban trolls with the same IP.

Username is different than IP. It's possible that one poster (troll) shares the same IP with another legitimate poster. So blocking one IP we may block the innocent posters too (which we prefer to avoid). Still, we do block IPs when needed.

Wrong.

Right, Harry, I know you by at least three user names. One classic one: PolishTraitor.

^ Yep: one at a time and always registered. Which name do you use when threatening teenage girls?

Harry is registered user that hunt decent Serbs here and plus trolling

He would jump outside of his own skin, if necessary, just to prevent people to see truth about anti-Slavic nature of EU and NATO.