How does staff finds ban evaders?

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Nybon

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I have been on this forum for a while now, but I still have some questions. While looking at the list of banned members, a lot of the reasons for their bans are "Ban Evading..." I spotted many members that have been ban evading for years. If they managed to survive so many years as a ban evader, does that mean they accidentally revealed themself? The ban reason does not include the proof, but the member they ban evaded from. Does staff find ban evaders based on ip's? If they do, why does it sometimes takes years to find these ban evaders?

A funny story; In my first months on this forum I had some very wrong thoughts on what ban evaders were. I thought ban evaders was members banned for opening a scam report but did not have enough evidence. Then the member who had made the scam report was banned for "Ban Evading" and wasting the staff's time. I was too afraid of opening a scam report on people that scammed me because I was afraid of being banned self if I did not have enough evidence.
I'm pretty sure a scammer learned me this :oops:
 

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Yeah, there's certain patterns that staff can pick up on, but I'm assuming they trace your IP / geolocation to hint towards a ban evading user.
 

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they have other things than just IP , if you use opera GX like me it auto slaps a VPN and a lot of people get the same IP so IP isn't a surefire way to decide.
It's not exactly a vpn, but it has some sort of other method and calls it a "vpn"
 

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Yeah, there's certain patterns that staff can pick up on, but I'm assuming they trace your IP / geolocation to hint towards a ban evading user.

It's all of the above, you just gotta wait until someone spill the beans basically. Whether it's conscious or otherwise (like reusing a discord or something like that).
 
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