Of course I'm not talking about viruses or anything like that. I'm suggesting that it's better to keep the user's IRL identity private by default, without making them jump through hoops if they don't want their actual IP address appearing every time they post something on this public forum.

I'm just wondering what displaying the poster's IP address is supposed to deter.

If someone want to troll / spam this forum then displaying the IP address does fuck all to stop them, because the troll / spammer can easily spoof it (and interestingly they don't even need an account to post (fucking lololol)) 

The IP address should not be published. It should be replaced with a hash of the address plus some salt. 

I don't know. But, because I'm outside the EU and this is not a commercial website, maybe not? 

Need to be careful how you do that, you'd need the server to store a distinct salt per IP. Otherwise an "attacker" could brute force the salt from knowledge of their own IP and hash, then use that to brute force the other IPs on the board. At that point you might as well just store each IP that's seen on the database, generate a unique ID for each one and tag each post with that. 

Sure. But what is the reason for even displaying anything there in the first place? 

I suggest we display our accurate geolocation data instead, along with our Social Security number and blood type.

The more social, the better. 

To be able to identify trolls. But I don‘t remember, might be a case of we‘vv always done it this way. For the record, I‘d rather get rid of them. 

All trolls hide their ip address because it's so easy.

If the idea is to say "Oh he is posting from a proxy / TOR node then he must be a troll" then that means legit users either have to live with their location being exposed, or accept their troll status i guess? 

Don't troll?

You're not witty, you're not funny, you're just embarrassing and a pain in the ass. Fuck off back to whatever shithole you came from. 

Oops, forgot to log out and get behind 7 proxies. 

:qthink: 

 

Don‘t forget that this community is older than Tor. I agree that it doesn‘t make sense anymore. 

I can only assume that means more players and mappers. 

I'm stuggeling to conceive a second map after QUMP, because I want to be so much better. 

Do a tribute map to one of your favorites. From there it will likely grow. I've done that twice and had good results. Sometimes you just need a place to start off. 

New headshot map? Epic. Don't worry about this single player nonsense, I'm sure people still appreciate a good dm map. (Sure, maybe nobody will actually play it, but what's new?)

I've probably said it before, but seeing FSDM3 for the first time was the moment I realised that custom maps could actually be not just as good as the id maps, but even better, potentially. That definitely inspired me to start making maps seriously, rather than just tinkering around making junk like everyone else in the early days. 

trying it without IP addresses. I think the arguments above are correct in that they don't provide much value or deterence nowadays. 

 

 

I'm glad others are in general agreement with this, thanks metlslime. 

But how will I know if it's really me? 

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