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Posted by: Specter Wolf
IP Bans are only useful to keep those with limited networking knowledge off the site. Otherwise it's almost laughably avoidable and only acts a big threat/deterrent to anyone who actually has serious malicious intent.
IP Bans, depending on the ISP and facility (college or military base for example), can actually be harmful to parties never even involved.
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Posted by: drummer0702
IP bans are 100% useless. So, I don't know what you're talking about. IP bans are not completely useless. That's a fact.
They are, however, avoidable by different means, depending on how your connection is set up.
Plenty of websites with message boards use IP bans. If they are "100% useless", then why are they still used to this day? Many ISPs issue dynamic IPs. Once the user issued a different IP, the IP ban will be nullified.
So IP banning is almost negligible.