IMDb2 owner: He can see your IPs - General Discussion Discussion

[–] Wilson (879) 8 years ago

Who do you know from Estonia?

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[–] God (311) 8 years ago

A former moderator from IMDb2 showed me this screenshot. This was when IMDb2 was new. They got rid of him

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[–] Wilson (879) 8 years ago

Good information to be aware of. Most IPs route through a local station though making narrowing them down to addresses or even neighbourhoods very difficult.

There are also those who use proxies when on the Internet to hide their IP too.

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[–] God (311) 8 years ago

Yes but they can also see your email

i have reported cyberbullying here https://www.proboards.com/report-abuse

http://imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/7236/trolls-openly-fun-gullible-user?page=4

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[–] JohnC (3) 8 years ago

"A former moderator from IMDb2 showed me this screenshot."

Silly Ben. That's not even a screenshot from IMDB2.

Bridge, Ben. Bridge. Build one.

-John

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[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

Every admin on every site can see your IP.
Welcome to the Internet.

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[–] Gameboy (77) 8 years ago

Admin of that site is a former imdb troll, and he also knows your emails.

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[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

Of course he does, he's an admin.
The fact that he is a former troll is the problem, not that he has access to such informations (that's the perks of owning a website).

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[–] Gameboy (77) 8 years ago

It's too bad that users are still stuck there. They will learn.

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[–] Gameboy (77) 8 years ago

They ban you and it doesn't show that you were banned. Other people think that the user is still active and isnt posting

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[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

It's called a "shadow ban". (Edit: It isn't!)
Very effective against trolls, but if that guy is an asshole he's probably playing with that option.

Wait, I misunderstood... It's just a dick move then.

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[–] Gameboy (77) 8 years ago

It's not effective. It would be like committing a holocaust and then removing any traces so that people never find out !

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[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

Nah it's on me, I misunderstood your comment.
Yeah it's a dickish behavior.

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[–] Gameboy (77) 8 years ago

Yep

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[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 8 years ago

Traveler 4 hours ago

Every admin on every site can see your IP.
Welcome to the Internet.
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exactly!
How are there still people in 2017 who are surprised by this?

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[–] wanton87 (934) 8 years ago

Exactly Traveler.

Administrators can always see your IP and email address, at least on every board that I've been a staff member on. They have to have a way to run a spam check on your IP or email prior to approval, or they will be endlessly flooded with spammers.

Most the boards that I've been a staff member on also had an extension that displayed the members IP next to their profile.

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[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 8 years ago

I don't post there, but it's pretty standard for any message board admin to be able to see IPs of the posters. It's a standard feature. You should assume that jim can also see ours, I would be very surprised if he couldn't.
Unless that other board owner is making that info public, then he is violating the TOU of whatever message board platform he is using.

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