Posted by: MURDUR 587
IP Bans are useless, not to mention detrimental.
What, you'll slow down a troll the five minutes necessary to reset their IP?
Oh the humanity.
That's of course assuming that their computer isn't connected directly to the modem, in which case they could probably do it in less than a minute.
Anyone who's willing to troll enough to make more than one troll account will know how to do this, it's no harder than just clearing your cookies, putting it in would be useless.
Now lets look at the positives, oh yeah, if it's a shared network like a University internet. Then you can ban everyone in that school instead of just one person! YAY!
It wouldn't be possible for just one guy of the hundreds of people there to be a troll and a good amount of the rest to be good constructive posters, no if one guy is bad they ALL must be bad.
Posted by: ctjl96
Sit down, sir.No, you.
>rephrasing things we've already gone over
Meh @ the University bit. That's probably the only reason why it would be impractical.
You can make an alt in 5 minutes and get around the current system, derp. Does that mean the current system is completely useless? No, stop being silly; the kids on here hardly know how to reset their modem, implying it's even their modem, and it wouldn't hurt at all to implement, except for the possibility of banning a ton of innocent people, which would probably not happen anyway. Other than that, there's really no reason why it would hurt anything if put in.