Dealing with n00bs.

[Spee]

IM fairly certain we all go to, or have gone to different forums in our time.

Now, I used to attend a forum site called hackernetwork.com, a humor site, with no information regarding hacking. Now, this did not deter from many the idiot stumbling into the forums, nda begg1ng in r337 k1dd13 sp33ch 4 h4x plz. So, We would ban them on site, or toy around with them by saying we DID have hacks.

However, they would just re-register, and start spamming again. They got banned again.
They returned. More spam. More ban.

IP ban was not possible, because the admin of the site is Greek. Thus, he was prolly out drinking beer, or raping goats or something. before any other greeks start flaming, Im greek myself, so STFU.

Eventually, the devious lead mod of the forums, Demosthenes, created a small program capable of rendering the n00bies system completely and totally useless, unless they knew how to fix it, which was rather simple.

The file, entitled hotmail3.bat was given to the idiotic noobies, promising them teh 1337 3ma1l h4x. What it did, was changed ALL file associations to .txt

.exe
.mp3
.ogg
.jpg
.zip
.whatever the hell else you can think of, all to .txt

System restore or another system function easily corrects this problem, but most were stupid enough where they gave up instantly, and had it taken in to be fixed by a professional. Those people who got pwnd by teh h4x never usually came back.

Now, the purpose of this tale, is to see how other forums deal with idiot noobs. From what Ive noticed, Hamma is incredibly lenient, but is not afraid to use the banhammer. Those are the only two forums Ive surfed regularly.

So, how do your other forums handle the waves of n00bs?