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WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
« on: May 24, 2025, 10:37:04 AM »
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  • I banned WWSC for holding multiple accounts on CathInfo. He had another account, "phillips"
    It's one of those things I have ZERO TOLERANCE for.
    Those are the kind of "games" that ruin a forum. It basically turns the entire forum into the "Anonymous forum" -- where you can argue with yourself, make it look like your opinion is more popular, allow you to misbehave without "tarnishing" your main account, etc.

    I won't allow any of those things on CathInfo.

    Just think of all the things that might have annoyed you about WWSC, and all the things I let him get away with -- then consider that holding multiple accounts is why I banned him.

    I can see everyone's IP address.
    But more importantly, the software makes it stupidly easy for me to check for sock puppet accounts.
    I simply click on your IP address and it will show me all member(s) who have used that IP address.
    It's quite easy to use. Whenever I'm curious I can do this.

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #1 on: May 24, 2025, 10:44:27 AM »
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  • WWSC used a LOT of IP addresses over the months, but ChatGPT helped me block them all on my server:

    I was going to post the list here, but I won't for ONE reason: I don't want him to be able to post that list into some kind of software, so it "always" gives him an address not in that list!

    Those ones with the /24 will block 255 addresses in that range. He used many "ranges" of IP addresses, but I can easily block them all with just one line.

    Long story short, it's going to be a huge pain in the butt for him to visit CathInfo now, because every time he hits one of these addresses, CathInfo is going to stop working for him. And, I have addresses going back to the first post he made on CathInfo.

    This might affect TOR users, but -- just don't use TOR on CathInfo. It's easy. Why wear a ski mask if you're not looking to murder or rob someone?
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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #2 on: May 24, 2025, 10:49:05 AM »
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  • And so it be, with some assistance... the White Working Class Scapegoat walkest the plank.


    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #3 on: May 24, 2025, 11:38:43 AM »
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  • Thank goodness. No more “sugar is good” crap.

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #4 on: May 24, 2025, 12:02:58 PM »
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  • Finally. The lack of charity was far too much.


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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #5 on: May 24, 2025, 12:43:34 PM »
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  • I banned WWSC for holding multiple accounts on CathInfo.
    It's one of those things I have ZERO TOLERANCE for.
    Those are the kind of "games" that ruin a forum. It basically turns the entire forum into the "Anonymous forum" -- where you can argue with yourself, make it look like your opinion is more popular, allow you to misbehave without "tarnishing" your main account, etc.

    I won't allow any of those things on CathInfo.

    Just think of all the things that might have annoyed you about WWSC, and all the things I let him get away with -- then consider that holding multiple accounts is why I banned him.

    I can see everyone's IP address.
    But more importantly, the software makes it stupidly easy for me to check for sock puppet accounts.
    I simply click on your IP address and it will show me all member(s) who have used that IP address.
    It's quite easy to use. Whenever I'm curious I can do this.

    Breathe the free air!!!





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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #6 on: May 24, 2025, 12:45:56 PM »
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  • Thank goodness. No more “sugar is good” crap.

    All that sugar sweetened not his fetid personality. 

    Dietary fat might have made him more gentle. I prescribe lardo, for immediate symptom relief!

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #7 on: May 24, 2025, 01:13:55 PM »
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  • I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but….Croix is as predictable as the sunrise. He’ll be back, like he always is, probably sooner than later.  ::)


    Let’s enjoy the reprieve while it lasts! 
    Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
    ~James 1:27


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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #8 on: May 24, 2025, 01:15:15 PM »
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  • I need to make a clarification --

    When I was talking about my zero tolerance for sock-puppet or 2nd accounts, I wasn't including "accidental" or "innocent" 2nd accounts. For example, if you had some issue when you first signed up, etc.

    Fortunately, I don't operate on auto-pilot here. When a second account comes up, I (a human being) look at it and apply my faculty of reason (which no computer has). The second account has no posts? Hasn't been used for years? No problem.

    You'll note that neither of those things was true about WWSC and his other account.


    In short, you only have to worry about ACTIVE accounts to run afoul of the rules.


    I really am fair. If you aren't being a scoundrel, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #9 on: May 24, 2025, 02:40:10 PM »
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  • I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but….Croix is as predictable as the sunrise. He’ll be back, like he always is, probably sooner than later.  ::)


    Let’s enjoy the reprieve while it lasts!
    Hopefully not, but let's see!
    Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #10 on: May 24, 2025, 03:57:48 PM »
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  • WWSC used a LOT of IP addresses over the months, but ChatGPT helped me block them all on my server:

    I was going to post the list here, but I won't for ONE reason: I don't want him to be able to post that list into some kind of software, so it "always" gives him an address not in that list!

    Those ones with the /24 will block 255 addresses in that range. He used many "ranges" of IP addresses, but I can easily block them all with just one line.

    Long story short, it's going to be a huge pain in the butt for him to visit CathInfo now, because every time he hits one of these addresses, CathInfo is going to stop working for him. And, I have addresses going back to the first post he made on CathInfo.

    This might affect TOR users, but -- just don't use TOR on CathInfo. It's easy. Why wear a ski mask if you're not looking to murder or rob someone?
    What is TOR Matthew?


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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #11 on: May 24, 2025, 04:00:13 PM »
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  • What is TOR Matthew?

    The Onion Router. It's a popular VPN. A way to give yourself a different IP address on the Internet. Basically a "disguise"
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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #12 on: May 24, 2025, 04:15:27 PM »
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  • Multiple accounts,? Is that like a " they/them" thing?

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #13 on: May 24, 2025, 07:02:56 PM »
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  • Yeah, this last time was absurd.  He was having a meltdown and right in the middle of that thread he created the new phillips account to back himself up.

    I was actually quite serious that the lack of healthy fats for his brain was affecting his ability to reason.

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    Re: WhiteWorkinClassScapegoat banned
    « Reply #14 on: May 25, 2025, 02:58:15 AM »
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  • Just for curiosity. How do you deal with dynamic IP?