Hi all, I don't think is the wrong place to ask. I also think that hide IP to logged user led us to many problems we didn't encounter before the Phase III. Here is the problems I see :
- Same user who use multiple identity to justify a pov opinion
- Same user who use multiple identity to make multi votes
- Vandale who use user account to hide its ip
As sysop I have no idea to how block a logged user even if he do massive vandalism (except send a message to this list and pray for one of the gods can stop him). I don't see any good reason to hide logged user IP. It worked fine on Phase I & II, no ?
Aside from privacy concerns, it would allow any sysop to ban any other user, which might cause problems. To alleviate these concerns, we could
1) store the IP number the user signed up with in his user data 2) allow sysops to look up the IP number of any user who has signed up less than a month ago.
This would make it impossible for sysops to obtain ALL the IP numbers of a user, or to ban long time contributors, but still allow them to ban vandals effectively by IP address.
Regards,
Erik