I can understand why the moderators of the site would want this. This is the easiest way to ensure that people don't create alt accounts just to troll (or worse) without requiring literal KYC, which most people wouldn't agree to anyway. Plus, it may make people more hesitant to do harm to others, knowing that the mods can give their info to authorities at any moment.
Still, if people knew what a bad actor can do with this information, they probably wouldn't want to share it at all.
I don't know anything about the lore of this forum, so forgive me if it's offensive to even consider this possibility, but.. what if one of the mods is a bad actor? If they have the technical knowledge to connect a person's ip to their identity, they can easily manipulate or blackmail people into doing terrible things. They can also obviously do this anonymously, so the rest of the mods wouldn't be able to know who's to ban. Even if they could, though, that mod could have already stored all the ips by that point anyway.
Even if all people with access to that info are decent enough not to do something like this, nobody is completely safe from data breaches. If those ips were leaked, who knows what might happen to the members?
I won't go into specifics here, but I would also like to point out that you don't really need to reveal your real ip when creating an account here, so a determined person could still create a bunch of alt accounts if they wanted to while remaining fully anonymous.
I know this is a very difficult problem to solve, so no hate to the moderators whatsoever, but maybe you could look into some alternative solutions? Maybe something like WorldID or Idemix?
Still, if people knew what a bad actor can do with this information, they probably wouldn't want to share it at all.
I don't know anything about the lore of this forum, so forgive me if it's offensive to even consider this possibility, but.. what if one of the mods is a bad actor? If they have the technical knowledge to connect a person's ip to their identity, they can easily manipulate or blackmail people into doing terrible things. They can also obviously do this anonymously, so the rest of the mods wouldn't be able to know who's to ban. Even if they could, though, that mod could have already stored all the ips by that point anyway.
Even if all people with access to that info are decent enough not to do something like this, nobody is completely safe from data breaches. If those ips were leaked, who knows what might happen to the members?
I won't go into specifics here, but I would also like to point out that you don't really need to reveal your real ip when creating an account here, so a determined person could still create a bunch of alt accounts if they wanted to while remaining fully anonymous.
I know this is a very difficult problem to solve, so no hate to the moderators whatsoever, but maybe you could look into some alternative solutions? Maybe something like WorldID or Idemix?
