How forum banned people should have a IP ban

[Evermore]

possibly but the chances of that are happening are quite less, as over 2 billion people use the internet while only 250,00 use the forums

Of course, that's just a potential issue with IP bans. The most prominent issue is that they simply do not block out rule breakers; anyone with an internet provider that issues dynamic IPs can change their IP on the whim or download a VPN program.

 

[bigrsniperz]

Why because of Xqer coming back and multiple of banned people making alt MCGAMER should put a big old IP forum ban on those people or even do the flick switch cause TBH they are just coming back..

lol alex would be the account used

 

[Ceroria]

possibly but the chances of that are happening are quite less, as over 2 billion people use the internet while only 250,00 use the forums

Divide all of those 2 billion people by the thousands of internet providers worldwide, and the fact that most people on this network are using only a small chunk of that. This means that a lot of people share an internet provider. Someone's IP gets banned, transferred to another IP, innocent user gets banned, etc.

Alright mods please leave this discussion open till Col_StaR replies

Once a long time ago, a Sr. Moderator banned an IP for a guy who had tons of accounts and kept coming back to screw around. Hacking and Abuse, obviously wrong, and he had a bone to pick with the staff (probably because he didn't like facing consequences to his own actions). Over the next three days, about five or six other players came forward, all reporting that they'd been banned for a reason they were innocent of, and had the records to prove it. We were stumped why they were banned until we realized they were all on the same IP. They explained that they lived in a large apartment complex and that they were leaching off an open WiFi spot; all of it was proven to us before the ban was removed. Ultimately we ended up dealing with the trouble-maker exactly as we do now: persistently banning them, no matter where they come from.

And the type of ban doesn't seem to discourage hackers and trolls either. Hackers don't think with long-term prospects in mind when it involves permanent removal.

~ Col_Star

There's your answer, Nirmit from Col himself. Thread locked.