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IAmOrion said:
If logged in sessions, along with IP used to login are kept, as well as the original IP at sign up, it would be super easy to link a banned account with a new account. If they used a VPN with forever changing IPs it would soon become apparent something was up when at 9:30 am they signed in from country a and then an hour later signed in from country b despite there being an 8 hour flight between the 2 lol. It would be obvious they were using a VPN/Proxy and coupled with other information that can be stored (and often is, but perhaps not here on this forum) it'd be fairly easy to still link accounts
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With most anonymous proxy's you can choose the countries IP.
The only way to shield a forum against that, is either to block all IP's from that country, or to link an account to an IP, which means you can only connect to the forum from one computer, and hope you dont get a new IP assigned. Mobile use would be completely impossible. Or hope that the ip blacklist includes all ip's from all anonymous proxies ever existed and ever will exist.
The case that you get an ip from one country the one time and another country the other time is very far fetched and only happens if you deal with someone who totally doesnt know what he's doing and chooses one of the few anonymous proxies that does that.
You also then rely on that people log in on a new session every few hours. In this case thats not very likely as we're here speaking about a person that made little over 200 posts in 3 years.

You can always get around a ban if you know what you're doing. All a mod can do is make it a nuisance, or seriously restrict the way people can join the forum (like requireing a token/referral from other members etc like you see on restricted forums)
 
Lol, I think you guys are going down a rabbit hole here. It is entirely possible for me to ban someone and stop them coming back, the issue is how much time and energy I want to take to prevent it. These situations only happen very rarely so it’s not really worth it.... The mechanism that works best is instead of banning someone you just ask them to leave... ;)
 
Im sure said offender having realised his error will also now make a donation to the forum from his profits.
 
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