Please do not get offended by what I'm about to say, I love this forum and only want it get better.
Anyway as for the topic title, I can understand keeping someone like berejena on occasion because he at least tries to be a decent poster (not often) but why do we continually allow the obvious metallijay/dogg alts to constantly s*** on every game thread? At times it feels like we have to pass a bill through congress just to get one alt banned. These alts should be banned on sight, I can understand having a strict policy to avoid banning legitimate newbies but some of these alts are just so ridiculous. Look at this for example:
http://i.imgur.com/8rudZXD.png?1
This guy was s***ing up yesterday's GDT for a legit FIVE PAGES before he finally got banned. This wasn't even borderline trolling either, every single post was "blue jays "
Something has to be done, I hate when people just shrug complaints like this off because "GDT threads are just naturally terrible so who cares." GDT threads are extremely enjoyable when they're not being polluted by the plebs. Up until this point I've just been complaining so here are some actual suggestions:
1) Change to a forum system where accounts have to be approved. This will SIGNIFICANTLY annoy the guys who create hundreds of alts. Not to mention, a lot of the troll alts have similar patterns in their names and can be spotted before they can even start posting. I understand the technical limitations of this so I'll move on to 2).
2) Hire more mods
Mods have lives and can't supervise 24/7, I get it. But this is no excuse when there are literally at least 10+ people willing to volunteer. More mods is always I good thing.
3) Mods should be more strict
I understand people don't want to ban the innocent but seriously I wouldn't be surprised if the new alts outnumber the new legitimate users. How long did it take for Bunchedundies to get banned for christ's sake? We've gotten to a point where the alts don't even give a s*** if they get banned because they know their new aliases won't get touched for at least a week before enough 'evidence' is assembled. All I'm saying is, if we know an alt is obvious (cough texasbluejaysfan/GXT) then just get rid of them, enough sugar coating it and just exterminate them on the spot.