Jorlem Wrote:I've seen that in a number of forums actually. Some boards don't like it when people bring drama from other boards to theirs.I've seen bannings when one's said "I'm leaving"... but from what I've seen, most boards will just lock the account ("You said you were leaving, so we're adding a kick to the ass on the way out, buh-bye!"), rather than ban the IP address. Banning the IP address has the potential to block legitimate users by mistake, since most people surfing the web are assigned a temporary IP out of their ISP's pool.
Plus, IP blocks aren't terribly effective. As Bob noted, he was able to use a proxy to view the site anyway. The most use of IP blocking is to make it more troublesome than it's worth for a troll or spammer to keep trying. They'll move on to softer targets.
And yeah, Bob, I agree, to ignore the C&D would have been monumentally stupendously suicidal. I don't know if Google would have applied a "3 strikes" with the prior two "adult" complaints considered the first two, but it's not a risk someone would want to take. On the other hand, I'm not sure how well anyone can clean a user-submission wiki of "adult" material once it's had it, so I'm expecting him to have a third Google Incident in the future, regardless of how ape he's going now.
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