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While I don't necessarily find it funny that someone is so prolifically attempting to brute force so many accounts (which while we're on that subject this seems like a huge task for just a couple actual humans all this brute force attempting it makes me wonder if they aren't using a program), I do find it funny that just now everyone is getting all pissy and whiny about it because it's actually effecting them.

Me, well ever since becoming an omni moderator I have received one of those 15 minute account block PMs at least once a week sometimes Daily. I know administrators and other moderators who receive/received them too. Frequently, all the time, just randomly.

Surprisingly after a year of attempted brute force of my account I am still here in control of it. Oh wait...no it's not surprising because brute force hacking is pretty much an exercise in futility. If people WANTED your accounts they certainly wouldn't try this method as a way to get it. Why? Because social engineering your a** is way way easier. Fake log in pages, password protected image popups, "I'm a moderator give me your s**t" PMs. Are all surprisingly effective and from what I've seen make up the near entirety of hacking reports. So is, sadly, being your trusted friend who you never EVER though would hack you sweatdrop

I don't think most people realize how severe a suggestion as banning IPs that attempt these log ins is. You haven't seen what I've seen. People who appear unrelated on the same IP. Thousands of kids using school computers or libraries or AOL on IPs that are all unrelated accounts. Hell, I know for a fact from having seen the IP log I have at least two people on my IP that ain't me. I've also moved four times in four years, and had at least two different internet service providers. I've used computers at my parents house and at a university. I, and likely many of you, am in very real danger of becoming a casualty should someone decide to IP ban. s**t, Gaia online and moderators take enough crap over banning accounts "unfairly" could you freaking imagine? If we IP banned you and your friends because you all used computers at the same school where some jackass thought it'd be fun to bot or post porn?

I'm not sure what anyone expects gaia to do. No one has actually hacked your account with these attempted log ins, there's no way to prosecute someone for typing in your name and a guess at your password. There's probably no way to even prosecute someone for your pixellated items should you lose them as all the represent is time spent on a computer. The ability for someone to guess your password relies on YOU not on Gaia. Make your password long, strong, and complex, and change it up periodically (no not daily) it really won't freaking matter if they spend the next year trying to steal your account.