Another Friendly Reminder About Duplicate Accounts

[Yankee4Life]

This is not the first time this subject has been brought up on this website and sorry to say it may not be the last either.

The problem of new users creating duplicate accounts and not-so-new users who have duplicate accounts and have not been caught yet is still a daily problem around here. Due to the popularity of this website and the mods available for both Mvp Baseball and 2k Sports Baseball many new users are joining up each day so they can get the mods for their game (s).

Unfortunately the first thing they notice is that they are only allowed two downloads per day unless they purchase a five or ten dollar subscription package that gives them unlimited downloads every single day. As you know this is done to help pay for the cost of the website.

What generally happens is -and believe me I have seen this every single day- is that the new user tries to pull a fast one and creates two or three accounts so they can download more files each day. Not only is this against the rules but the person who gets away with this is cheating the website by having one or more accounts so they can take up unnecessary bandwidth.

This brings me to the purpose of this announcement. Anyone who knows they have a duplicate account or even thinks that they have one should send a private message to myself or any other staff member with the information so we can disable the other accounts. If it is done this way the matter will be considered closed and nothing more will become of it. However if your duplicate account or accounts are not brought to our attention the next thing you will notice is that all of your accounts will be suspended without notification.

For most of you who only have one account please ignore this.

Thank you.

[Yankee4Life]

I thought it was time I come back in here and update everyone on what is going on concerning this subject. It has now been over a month that this thread was made and so far no one has come forward to inform us that they have an additional account and would like us to disable it. What has been discovered though is an entirely different matter and I will leave it at that.

It isn't uncommon that someone that isn't a contributor would try to make another account here for the extra downloads. It is a risk that many of them do. But what I do not understand is why someone who is a contributor or a modder, titles that allow you to download as much as you want every single day, would want to have another account. It's like trying to sell a snow shovel to someone who lives in the Bahamas. They don't need it and neither do the people who have these titles.

Again, if you have more than one account let us know. The other account will be taken care of and you go on your way. This offer is only good provided you notify us.

Thank you!

[Yankee4Life]

I am sorry to bring this thread out to the front page again. It has been a little over three months since I was here reminding people about this and I have to do it again because there has been a major rules change as far as the penalty and length of time you will serve if it is discovered you have a duplicate account.

Some people make their duplicate accounts the day they join here. They are required to read the rules but that still doesn't prevent them from creating four accounts that same day. I wish I could say I was stretching the truth a little bit right now but I'm not. This is exactly what happens at times.

Some people will become members and will create their second account a few days later, or a week, or a month after they've joined.

Some people take it upon themselves to create a new account because they "forgot" their password to their other one. If this does happen to you and you do forget your password or if something happens where you can't get it, don't make a new account. You'll soon see why.

Incredibly, people who are modders and/or contributors also have been caught making duplicate accounts. When you are a modder or a contributor you already have the right to unlimited downloads so for someone in this status to make another account is something I do not understand at all. I won't bother to name any names here because there's no need to do that but let me say one thing about this. This is something that has happened many times.

Well, now you know why there has been some rules changes with the duplicate accounts. Now let me tell you what they are:

1. The first offense for a duplicate account is six (6) months.

2. The amount of time you will be serving if you make a second account has been increased to one (1) year.

The time added to this should show you once and for all that having a duplicate account here is not a good idea.

Before I go let me request this from you. If you have another account and you are not sure if the staff here knows about it, PLEASE send a PM to someone on the staff so the second account can be taken care of for you. We asked the same thing in before back in September and nobody wrote to us and when these members were caught they were suspended. I don't want anyone here right now to serve six months for something that can be easily avoided as this.

If you do forget your password send an e-mail to yankee4life@mvpmods.com. I will try to help you and get you back in so you don't have to take it upon yourself to make a new one and make a mistake.

Thank you

Y4L 1-24-14

[Yankee4Life]

It has been a little over a month since I was last in here trying to explain the seriousness of having a duplicate account here and what would happen if you were found out and what would happen if you came to us and let us know that you had one.

Since the last time I was in here not one person has sent me (or anyone) a private message to let us know of another account that they have. To remind you once again what would happen if you do this is that you would not be suspended at all and we would just suspend your other account and be done with it. I really believe this arrangement is more than fair and in the end everyone comes out ahead. We get rid of a phony account and you don't get banned because of it.

Despite the fact that no one has stepped forward here do not assume that the reason for that is there haven't been any to report. Not one day has gone by that a new duplicate has been discovered and subsequently banned from this website and every one of them could have been avoided. It is discouraging to see the lack of cooperation in here concerning this. Therefore due to our repeated requests in the past to come forward, more additional steps and procedures have gone into effect to identify members with more than one account and the results have been more than what I expected them to be.

There is another thing that is part of this same problem. I can not understand why any member who is a contributor or a modder would need to have a second account since you have unlimited downloads, but yet this continues to happen regularly. I personally believe the length of the ban in these instances should be longer but that is not the case.

If any of what I am talking about here pertains to you then I can only ask you again to do something about it because if you leave it up to an administrator here you will discover that the next time you try to log on here you will not be able to and any e-mail you send about you being banned will not be answered. You'll already know the reason why.

[Yankee4Life]

Hello to all our forum members,

I have some news about this thread since the last time I was here (February 28th) and that is this will be the last time this thread will be updated. If you have questions in here you can still post them but to announce any further rule changes concerning length of suspensions or having me plead to you to come forward to inform us of any duplicate account you may have ends today.

Today a major rule change went into effect concerning the duplicate accounts and the length of the ban you will serve if you are caught having one. The rule previously was that the first offense was a six month ban and the second offense was a one year ban. To me six months is a long time to serve a ban. A six month ban brings you into October. I don't want to have to wait that long especially if I am here to get the latest mods and I wouldn't want to think about a one year ban. That's just how I look at.

From now on if you create a duplicate account to get more downloads each day or if you already have one and it has not been discovered yet you will be permanently banned from the website. No six months. No year. You're done. Your account gets suspended for good and then we forget about you.

If you are thinking that this is unfair then you don't understand what we are trying to do. The majority of you guys that come in here don't even have to spend one second thinking about this because it won't affect you at all.

The phony accounts here have been getting out of control. I see people making four or five accounts in one day a lot. Two days ago one guy made eight of them.

Contributors and modders are the two groups in here that have no reason to make another account but they do. Three days ago we had someone sign up and then he became a contributor. Today he made another account. Now he got his money back and he's gone for good. That's how serious this is taken.

Before I go there are two things you can do to help.

A. If you know someone that wants to join the website tell them that if they are thinking about having a couple of accounts to forget it because they will have a very short stay here.

B. If you have a duplicate account you must come clean. It's better for all of us if you let us know because if you don't and the next time you try to come back here again you will find you are unable to and that means I found it and then it's too late.

Thank you. Any questions? Please go ahead.

[Yankee4Life]

There are two minor rule changes I'd like to bring to everyone's attention since the last changes went into effect back in April. If you know anyone that is thinking of joining the website you should let them know that these are two things to avoid - along with having a duplicate account of course.

1. No offensive screen names. This goes under the category of common sense. Anything racial, sexually offensive or names with swear words will immediately be banned without any further consideration.

2. No disposable e-mail addresses will be accepted. There are two reasons behind this. These phony e-mail addresses are used mostly by people who have another account here and want to see if they can get away with another one or are people who have already been banned and want to get back in here any way they can. Also, in case there is a reason someone on the staff needs to get in touch with you for any reason we will use your e-mail address to contact you.

Here are some examples of why we would want to contact you via e-mail instead of private message:

A. You may not have been on the website for awhile and instead of waiting for you to return we would send you a PM.

B. Not every member chooses to use the private messaging system.

Here are some examples of unacceptable e-mail providers that are currently blacklisted here:

nowmymail.com, fakeinbox.com, spam4.me, dontmail.net, guerrillamail.com, guerrillamail.biz, 20minutemail.com, dispostable.com. spamgoes.in and mailinator.com.

This is not a complete list of these type of services on the internet, rather these are just some examples. If you decide to use one of these or one that is not listed then your verification process will immediately stop and you will be banned. If you have already joined and you have one of these accounts please change it as soon as possible. Some acceptable e-mail providers are as follows.

A. Yahoo

B. Gmail

C. Hotmail

D. Your own e-mail from your IP provider.

Again, like the banned providers this is an incomplete list.

Thank you.

P.S. Again, any questions about a lost or forgotten password don't make a new account. Just send me an e-mail letting me know what is going on and I will be very happy to help you. My e-mail is yankee4life@mvpmods.com

[Hollywood-nWo]

I have been trying to pm you but can't.

 

[WithAuthority]

What exactly would be the motive for such a silly thing I wonder?

[Kccitystar]

 

What exactly would be the motive for such a silly thing I wonder?

Couple of scenarios come to mind:

1) I try to log into the site, but I don't have access to the email associated with my account anymore. Instead of waiting to contact site staff to look up my account and update the email associated to it which can take some time from when I ask, I just re-register and enjoy the site's content.
2) I genuinely don't know what my username is nor do I know if I have a duplicate account, so I register a new account.

In both of these cases, the primary solution is to merge the account if we find out that there's a dupe. We'll let the user know beforehand that there's a dupe and we'll ask to either merge the accounts or delete the old one.

We enforced this policy a long time ago when we had download limits but that rule has been altered to reflect the current state of the site.

It helps that we have also integrated Twitter/Facebook logins and anyone with a Facebook account can shoot a message to the MVPMods facebook page and have their duplicate accounts merged/removed.

[WithAuthority]

Can you change my username to "WithAuthority" please?

[Kccitystar]

 

Can you change my username to "WithAuthority" please?

Working on it, but I get hit with errors when I try to do it in the admin panel. Must be something with the site's software.

[Jim825]

I just had the same problem both times when I tried changing the username.