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I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.
I tweet?
Posted by: elmicker
Posted by: Iggyhopper
It's extra information available to the moderator.It's useless information unless you know exactly what you're looking for and have time to devote to the problem.
Besides, as a number of permabanned users will attest, bungie doesn't really care who you are, it's how you behave at any one point in time that matters. Malicious sock puppets and alts can be identified a mile off without having to resort to hit-and-miss technical tricks.
This is pretty much my thought on the matter. Besides, IP bans are reactive anyway, the only way to limit things like shock sites would be proactive. Stop them before they end up on the site. The post submission form already checks for things like invalid characters, that could be extended to check for certain URLs from known shock sites and URL shorteners. Unless the URL is as long as -blam!- there's no reason to use anything like tinyurl or bitly. It may not stop 100% of shock sites, but it could make them work harder and the list could be updated by the moderators who encounter the new sites.
As for spam, it's going to happen, it's the internet and people are asshats. Just ignore it and educate others in how to ignore it was well.