About Password Thieves.

Even if you find a thief then what can you do about it ? Its highly unlikely hes going to be a member of the forum if hes a thief so you cant exactly ban him.

The sites wont do anything, they frankly dont give a damn.

The problem isnt the thieves, its the low lives off here who are revealing the passwords. Thats what you need to address

That's the point, that's what we are trying to find out. By doing this, eventually we will find them. Look at no. 5.

And they are not going to tell you where they get the passwords from. To think they might is naiive...

The fact is, you either change the way the passwords are released or even better remove the passwords altogether and do a login system on the forum, or you approach FT and PS, explain the problem and see if they will allow it whereby the prize money has to be claimed on here first before it is released.

If people cant get the prize money they wont bother taking part.

Also, by harrass the thieves, it dicourage them from entering in the future.

I have belonged to other non cash game sites that 1 could call an admin anytime. It seems to make a complaint at these cash poker sites is to troublesome. This comment doesn't help the password problem per se; but it is part of the problem. Little help from PS or Ft.

I also came up with another suggestion, and thats to release a dummy fake password a couple of times.

The prorails issue a fake password then about half an hour before the tournament they send out the real one.

You only need to do this a few times and the thieves will get sick of having to go back to their original source to find out if the new password is out.

This is a free site, and its not all that hard to get the password once you join. There will always be someone that will try to steal the PW. The only way to keep banned players or nonrailbirds out of tourneys is to do tickets, i assume this may have been discussed and investigated as an avenue. so there really isnt much we can do other than beat them and stop whining that non birds are in our tourneys

tilt and stars dont CARE so this wont work. they let in anyone who has the password if you ahve a password tilt and stars say you got a right to be there TILT an PSTARS dont care were play ABC123 got the password.

the only to fix this problem is to quit the password system and go to a ticket system ran through ps and ft that means all usernames would have to be same so we could get the tickets and check our accounts 1 hr before tour start

I most always go to the railbirds tourneys armed with the friends request so I can search to see if they are birds or not. The problem with that is some of the birds have their site name hidden and you can not be sure if they are or are not a member; but I can at least make a note on the birds I find so if I'm playing with them I know they are the real deal.This is and will be a on going problem some people just plain like to do what they should not. Good luck on the felts, and may a birdie always be the winner in our tourneys.

THERE ARE SITES FOR THE THEIVES AND THEY DONT CARE IF ONE GETS CAUGHT THEY KEEP COMING. If you want the password on those sites to be wrong well thats another story like hitting them with 1000+ random posts and drive there mods nuts well thats up to you as Im banned from most of the thief sites for driving there mods up the wall also sending 1 email even 5 seconds off all different ISPs LOL and oh yah I got the bookstores ISP blocked aswell for the same thing

This is a free site, and its not all that hard to get the password once you join. There will always be someone that will try to steal the PW. The only way to keep banned players or nonrailbirds out of tourneys is to do tickets, i assume this may have been discussed and investigated as an avenue. so there really isnt much we can do other than beat them and stop whining that non birds are in our tourneys

I have said for a while that the entry requirements to gain access to the passwords are too easy to achieve. Its basically turn up, post any old crap and you get them.

You should not get the passwords for logging on and saying "Hi, I love poker please give me the passwords". It should be far more strict than that.

There is a grading system on this site. Why not use that system and say that you cannot gain access to the freerolls until you have passed the first grading level. You would cut down the numbers in a matter of days. That has many benefits.

1) Reduced fields means the prize money doesnt have to stretch between so many players and therefore getting into the money is worthwhile. Why play for three hours to win $0.10..

2) New members would have to be actively involved in the site to gain access. Of all those members that get the passwords, how many are actually active on a regular basis. I would bet very few. The serious railbirds skip the FR and go for the buy in games simply because its just not worth the hassle to take part in a FR to win a few cents.

3) It makes the task of finding out who is releasing them easier because theres less people who have access to them.

I was under the impession that freerolls are meant to be a reward to those that are members. Not a way of attracting new people to the site. If you want to attract new members then why not give out one freeroll each week with the password freely available to anyone who visits the site then advertise that there are other freerolls available if they wish to join the site and become active members. Reward them for what they do for the forum. Not reward them first then ask them to take part.

THERE ARE SITES FOR THE THEIVES AND THEY DONT CARE IF ONE GETS CAUGHT THEY KEEP COMING. If you want the password on those sites to be wrong well thats another story like hitting them with 1000+ random posts and drive there mods nuts well thats up to you as Im banned from most of the thief sites for driving there mods up the wall also sending 1 email even 5 seconds off all different ISPs LOL and oh yah I got the bookstores ISP blocked aswell for the same thing

I said this ages ago.

Bombard the site in question. Get each RB to register then give out a fake PW.

Their mods would soon stop anyone posting RB passwords because it would be more hassle than its worth to allow them. THey would never know which ones were real and which werent until some of their members have used up all their credits getting the wrong passwords.

All the other forums have managed to get their PW stopped from being posted on that site. Its about time this site followed suit. And if they wont stop them being posted when we ask them nicely, then go about it in other ways ie sabotage their site until they realise its more hassle than its worth.

How are people going to do this and play to?

How about when people are switched tables? Are they going to be asked two or three times if they are railbirds?

The thief sites already know that we have people submitting false pw's. This is done a couple of times a week to the thief sites.

Those sites have people monitoring us just like we have people monitoring them. One of them is probably reading this blog as I type.

The prorails are working on a solution. They are as frustrated as we are.

Good ideas though.

Oh , by the way, you can go to war with an army of 100 against 1000. It took just 100 U.S Army Special Forces to throw the Taliban from power by using force multipliers.

I said this ages ago.

Bombard the site in question. Get each RB to register then give out a fake PW.

Their mods would soon stop anyone posting RB passwords because it would be more hassle than its worth to allow them. THey would never know which ones were real and which werent until some of their members have used up all their credits getting the wrong passwords.

All the other forums have managed to get their PW stopped from being posted on that site. Its about time this site followed suit. And if they wont stop them being posted when we ask them nicely, then go about it in other ways ie sabotage their site until they realise its more hassle than its worth.

I just found one of these sites, if anyones interested in joining and posting a fake password, pm me and I'll give you the site.

I said this ages ago.

Bombard the site in question. Get each RB to register then give out a fake PW.

Their mods would soon stop anyone posting RB passwords because it would be more hassle than its worth to allow them. THey would never know which ones were real and which werent until some of their members have used up all their credits getting the wrong passwords.

All the other forums have managed to get their PW stopped from being posted on that site. Its about time this site followed suit. And if they wont stop them being posted when we ask them nicely, then go about it in other ways ie sabotage their site until they realise its more hassle than its worth.

I just found one of these sites, if anyones interested in joining and posting a fake password, pm me and I'll give you the site.

lol, thanks for being a smart a$$ button..hehehe just kidding ya.

the people who steal the passwords suck at poker, so take advantage of them in the meantime. In a perfect world the pokersites (FT and PS) will punish those that enter private tournies which are not for them... it aint a perfect world by far.

First, fill out your profile(upload a picture or two, your fav pokerrooms, hands, and players

Second, write and intro blog(let us know who you are, where you like to play, and what game you like to play)

Third, read and comment on others' blogs (this helps you get to know others and make some friends)

I have taken this from another thread started today.

That, to be honest is why you are getting the problem.

Upload a picture, write "Hi, I am johny, I love poker" and hey presto the password is yours.

Thats all of what, five minutes work at the very most.

Cardschat stiffened up their requirements and within a day they went from 1200 each time to less than 100. That should tell you something.

You stiffen up the requirements to gain access to the PW and you will find that the problem is halved instantly.

You can then follow it up by setting up a system whereby anyone who hasnt posted at least 10 times in a month is taken off the list of people eligible. That then makes sure they have to keep posting.

If you want to stop the PW getting out, then make it harder for any Tom Dick or Harry to get access to them.

You leave it as easy as it is, and you'll never solve the problem.

I don't know if any of this will work, something needs to be done. I suspect it's the outsiders that are so rude, short tempered, and bad manered. At least I hope they're not Railbirds.