Originally posted by Lanny
Your system is silly. You should just drop an evercookie when someone first makes their account, tie the value to their username like trip phrases. Let the register page check for the value of the evercookie against the DB and if it's found ban the original account for a week, ban the account that was trying to sign up forever, and for MAX PAYNE ban the IP for a week as well.
This would stop 99.5% of people from creating alts.
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