This will be short and to the point.

Starting now, any user caught creating alternate accounts will have their Psybucks removed, their signature and avatar privileges revoked for three weeks, placed on probation, and their name will be listed below until that punishment is served.

The Thing (6/17/07)
stormidiot (6/22/07)
webkinz_pokemon (6/25/07)

I'm just curious, but how would you know about that?

Oh that is how it works. I get it know. I always wondered what you guys where talking about when you say "abusing Psybucks system".

What R and how do U use Psybucks

Please submit to the faqs: http://psypokes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=421

An even better description of the psybuck system is at http://psypokes.com/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 707#100707

It is basically the currency of psypoke foums - you can donate, you can exchange for goods/services (Slateport Market). However, it cannot be exchanged for legal tender (ie, US dollars, british pound, Euro, etc).

Edit - I have a question (going a bit off-topic) - if the admins can see all transactions, do they have all psybuck records? I was just wondering, because if the records are available, are we as forumgoers (psypoke members) allowed to view our own?

Again, the key is the ip address - if you send the pb, you would et into trouble. If they send pb to themself, they would get into trouble.

I thought "Fire Starter" said, "This is a WARNING".

It was until you sent the pm.

Waste of bandwidth space. Bandwidth costs money.



It's pretty darn stupid and a waste of effort to make multiple accounts just to bother a person. And just because people can get away with it sometimes doesn't mean that the correct thing to do shouldn't be enforced. Isn't that the same with laws everywhere? And you don't have to worry about how we investigate things =)

you can go through your PM inbox, outbox and sentbox to list all the donations you have either given or received (provided you haven't deleted them of course!)



Because a privilege is being abused. I think the Psybucks system was installed to make forum visits a bit more enjoyable, and if people go round making mule accounts to make themselves richer this goal couldn't be achieved now, could it?

I think what you are trying to say is "why bother? smart people can find a loophole!!!" Well personally I think the system is great, and as far as I can tell no one has been wrongly caught as of yet. It's also the best system that can be controlled, and if that frequent internet cafe visitor is taking extreme measures to make them "richer" on the internet, then shame on them.

Just a quick little thing: You said you can view donation logs, since you can see the donations in your PM inbox, would this include PMs as well?

Someone's got a guilty conscience.

As for Psybux, I have a little bit of a confession. My friend signed on round about the same time as I did, The Snowy Owl. Well, I saw her at school the other day, and we got chatting, and she said that since she didn't really intend on ever posting, she would give me her Psybux, hence the emptying of her account. I am alerting this to you becuase the format of our name is similar, and thought you might have deemed me stupid enough to use a similar name to increase my Psybuck count.

Thanks!

omg immediate b&.

omg unnecessarily sarcastic.

But seriously, I didn't want to get any negative sort of attitudes, as I rather like Psypoke, and wouldn't mind staying for a stretch longer.

I would think that you were being a little more unnecessarily sarcastic than he was. Sometimes sarcasm is just a joke; moderators aren't out to get you, and no one should feel like they have to walk on egg shells around another member. Even if it's not your type of humor, either lighten up or blow it off.

I don't think you have to explain yourself in these situations though, since the staff is intelligent enough to determine the real deal between abuse and fraud (fraud being a situation similar garabato explained). If you're doing the right thing, I don't believe you'll need to worry about pleading a case to us. I think for the most part you can relax, but even if you were unjustly convicted, pleading against it might also prove futile since you would have no evidence to convince us otherwise other than your word. Kissing ass and begging for forgiveness might be more useful. :)

I was in fact being sarcastic back. The irony was exactly what you said, that I was being more than unecessarily sarcastic than he. No offence intended Nfield.



Cool, I'll keep that in mind for when I give myself some bux.

I don't get what the heck you mean

If you mean you don't understand the dicussion of the past 5 posts, don't worry - Its a moderator being sarcastic.


However, psybuck abuse is when you sign up with multiple accounts, and just donate the 50 starting psybucks to get rich quickly.
http://psypokes.com/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 707#100707 is the description of psypoke currency, or money.

I have to say this to clear me and Treeckoluv are brothers and have to share a computer so don't mix us up.