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I want to preface this by saying that alternate accounts are still allowed, and that nothing is being done to remove that.

That being said, I wanted to create this topic because I know a good majority of the RPG forum doesn't look at topics outside of this forum, and this is something you all need to be aware of.

As some of you know, there have been some issues with alt accounts lately. There have been new implementations on CV that sometimes backfire against RPGers and others with alternate accounts. If you have an alt account that has been banned, it is not intentional.

If you are one of the people who ends up with an alt account being banned (and for more information and better explanations), please see this thread in the Bug Reporting forum: Alt Accounts and getting banned.

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Account linking would be a good function for RPrs

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Account linking would be a good function for RPrs

This. I'd personal like a feature where you can link alts to one main account (In otherwise, no need to have a bunch of different emails just to make alts)

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Account linking would be a good function for RPrs

I would think so.

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#5  Edited By Geth

@Plan-B:

Here you go. Now you can stop complaining to me about something I clearly know nothing about :)

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THE HORROR

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Account linking would be a good function for RPrs

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Yeah, just speaking from past experience, any time something changes with how accounts are created/verified/formatted etc, RPGers lose accounts. A bunch of accounts were lost in the switch from the old site to the new one, and a while before that when we had the multi-pass upgrade a legion of accounts were lost. Just speaking for myself, the way that they're handled now is just fine, and I'd be afraid to see the implementation of linking or any different functionality in them.

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I'm not even going to comment anymore on the glitches...wait.

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Account linking would be a good function for RPrs

as good as this sounds... knowing the wonderful IT people CV has, it will end up deleting all of our accounts all over again.

I'd rather just make alts, but have them WITHOUT having to worry about them being deleted, locked or banned.

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The time has come for the rise of the Linked Account master race.

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@mercy_: Seems like my Account Linking idea has some likes, is that something that can be implemented?

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I said the account linking thing back in like 2012. Icarus flies shot me down immediately saying it would cause some kinda tech issues. Considering I already see the notifs from one account on the next I log into, I ain't gettin the difference.

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Account linking sounds like it would backfire spectacularly if implemented, even if it sounds good in theory. Not unlike multipass.

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@_animus_ said:

I said the account linking thing back in like 2012. Icarus flies shot me down immediately saying it would cause some kinda tech issues. Considering I already see the notifs from one account on the next I log into, I ain't gettin the difference.

I've gotten notifications on my God_of_Demise account, and went I click on them, it leads me to someone tagging my Dreadpool10 account, and not the alt.

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@_nox_ said:

I'm not even going to comment anymore on the glitches...wait.

My thoughts exactly.

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Darkchild

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So if I'm understanding correctly I CAN log into my old alts and not get banned. Just can't create NEW ones RIGHT NOW

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No you can create new ones you just have to put time in between creating them

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@mth_:

How much time exactly? Do we know yet or is it a hit and miss kind of deal?

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@mercy_: Seems like my Account Linking idea has some likes, is that something that can be implemented?

Hey, sorry for the late reply on this. Mods aren't the ones who deal with implementing new features, and the engineering staff have a lot of other things going on right now, so even if they did decide to implement, it's doubtful that it would happen any time soon.

That being said, my earlier post on my Ren account sums up my feelings about it. Mainly, it's not a functionality that would drastically improve the way things are done, and implementing it would probably break more things than it would improve just based on what's happened with accounts during upgrades and site relaunches in the past.

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I've been away for a few months...what has been happening with Alt accounts?

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@superstay: It's pretty under control, now. One just has to wait several days between making accounts, so as not to get auto-banned by an anti-spam program.

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Anyone else having trouble with alternate accounts, and not being able to post. As in the post box isn't even there? Or is that just me?

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#28  Edited By Sequitur_Crix

@12345f12345: Havent had that problem (yet). But the site has been acting a lil f'd up for me. Slow load times and images not appearing. Bad sign of things to come I think. Have you tried clearing your cache & cookies?

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No I have not, I'll try it now and thanks. BUt does that option work on chrome though?

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@12345f12345: I dont see why not. Give it a try then close and reopen your browser. See if it helps.

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@alexander_apex: I did, it worked posted something on a RPG forum and got banned, well that sucks

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Alexander_Apex

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@12345f12345: Was it a picture? I heard new accounts get insta-banned for posting images cause of their new spam policy.....there should be a pinned thread in one of the forums explaining what to do if that happens. Maybe the Gen Discussion or Bug Reporting. Check the top of those forums.

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Yeah it was, a mandolrian.

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#34  Edited By Vici_Aurelius

@alexander_apex said:

@12345f12345: Was it a picture? I heard new accounts get insta-banned for posting images cause of their new spam policy.....there should be a pinned thread in one of the forums explaining what to do if that happens. Maybe the Gen Discussion or Bug Reporting. Check the top of those forums.

@12345f12345 said:

Yeah it was, a mandolrian.

Can confirm this, my account "Exemplar" was just banned when I tried to link a youtube URL. Frustrating. @mercy_ is there any way to fix this any time soon?

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#35  Edited By 12345F12345
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Well here's the picture. -->

Also the account was called Hunter-of-bounties

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Frustrating. @mercy_ is there any way to fix this any time soon?

I agree that it's frustrating, and it's happened to an account of mine as well. I'm not an engineer, so unfortunately it's not on me on whether or not it gets fixed. Right now it's considered an unfortunate by-product of a spam-filtering system that is much more effective and helpful than anything we've had in the past. It's explained more in the thread linked at the top of this OP.

If it happens to you and it's a new account with relatively few posts (which is the majority of who it's happening to) and you haven't created a thread, it's very easy for me to unban the account and undelete your posts. But if it's an account that has more than 15 posts OR has created a thread, an email should be sent to support@comicvine.com so that a staff member can reverse it.

That's the best we can do right now, sorry for any inconvenience that this is causing anybody!

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Vici_Aurelius

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@mercy_: Wicked. I've not created any threads and that was my third post ever with that account. Thanks, Mercy.

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@vici_aurelius: No problem, buddy. And I already went in and unbanned and undeleted the posts of your account that this happened to.

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@mercy_: Thanks again.

What makes it hard to unban an account that's made a thread? Is it because that's what spambots do, and they are flagged as such? Also, are there any chances of this account being instabanned again?

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#40  Edited By Mercy_

@vici_aurelius: It's not that it's hard to unban an account that's created a thread, it's that when accounts get 'nuked' (banned and all posts auto-deleted), it becomes hard to undelete those threads and sometimes they get lost. Whereas the engineers can easily just revert the process in one fell swoop.

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@mercy_: Well, at least there's no more spam.

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So I just made an alt for a new thread but then it kept auto logging out on it's own. I try and go into the account settings and it does it over and over again, sometimes giving a 404 and then doing it. Crazy that this isn't a top priority.

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@_animus_ said:

So I just made an alt for a new thread but then it kept auto logging out on it's own. I try and go into the account settings and it does it over and over again, sometimes giving a 404 and then doing it. Crazy that this isn't a top priority.

Same issue. Might have to take it to the Bug Report forum. For all the good that'll do.

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Banned without posting a single post or picture :-(

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@the_shogun: Yikes. Can you PM me the account so I can unban it?

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Seems good ol' CV is at it again.

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#48  Edited By _The_Force_

Ironic af lol I'm not getting notifs for posts to me in here

@_animus_ said:

So I just made an alt for a new thread but then it kept auto logging out on it's own. I try and go into the account settings and it does it over and over again, sometimes giving a 404 and then doing it. Crazy that this isn't a top priority.

Same issue. Might have to take it to the Bug Report forum. For all the good that'll do.

Thats why I put it here, it does about as much good. Might as well just compile them here and then report the whole thread.

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@_animus_: @alexander_apex: No idea what to do about that one. Sorry guys.

I think that the bones of the accounts are made when you create a new one, but the meat of it, like the settings, take a while to catch up.

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#49  Edited By Matthew_X

My alt got banned. They die so young these days. @corvus_wilshere, posting not to be a**holey, it's just that the thread got locked.

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