IP addresses have been a large part of Indefinite Ban Requests for as long as they have been around circa 2012/2013. In 2019 a suggestion was proposed and approved to make indefinite ban requests public in the interest of transparency. However, this has brought along a whole new set of problems - we have received multiple complaints from multiple users about how their IP addresses have been publicized, and personally I agree with them. I have seen what people can do with just IP addresses (in fact, I ended up getting suspended and indefinitely banned for it once under Seth's reign), and it actually terrifies me if you play your cards right on the telephone.
We have heard the many calls to reform how Indefinite Ban Requests are handled, and we're going to listen. This suggestion calls for a reform of the Indefinite Ban Request system to remove IP addresses entirely from public requests. While IP addresses would still be indefinitely banned, the IP itself would not be included in the public request. This implementation protects the privacy of the individual who done fucked up, while still retaining the transparency that comes from an indefinite ban request.
