by Luna Prey
by Spatial MindNot that I ever blacklisted anyone. But TheLeviathan was blacklisted in my list. I noticed that when changing my avatar. I guess the IP ban puts a ban on the most regularly used account for whatever you did TK.
EDIT: That or I blacklisted him myself for accident.
The mute button will tell the server to take a look at the IP address of the account. It will then look up all IP's in the past that account has used, and then it will disallow all of those IP's from re-registering without approval-- currently which only I can give, but I will make a function for it later.
So for example, if Spatial Mind was muted, every single IP he's ever logged into his Spacial Mind account would be disallowed from re-registering an account.
About this topic, I'm not sure 100% about the idea of banning Doxers. This place is kinda meant to be a scary place where people should feel like they need to be careful on. On the other hand, I would certainly delete any personal information found about me if it were ever posted, so I don't disagree with this decision. I don't know how I feel about it, but Thrill seems to be doing a good job, so I will have faith in this decision, and see where it goes
I know plenty of people here who use tor and proxies. That means they have a different IP each time they log in. Banning the IP of a puppet that's a tor exit node or a proxy doesn't help at all. And forcing people to use their real IPs on this site (which could put everyone in TK's position) or leave the forum forever turns it into a fucked up dictatorship with little resemblance to the old SW forum we came to enjoy.