re: #368 negativ

Most IP addresses aren’t static, and it doesn’t really tell you anything if someone is hiding behind a proxy server. I mean, yeah, if you wanted to keep track of someone’s IP and do a whois lookup every time they were actively posting, you could probably reasonably assume that someone was a sock/troll if their IP was from Germany one day and Brazil the next, but that’s about it.

On the flipside, honest members who aren’t trying to hide anything with nefarious intent would probably rather not have their IP addresses exposed to the stalkers. For example, if they’re logging on from work via a corporate network, their IP address could give away which company they work for.

For people logging in from home or mobile devices it wouldn’t be so much of an issue since ISPs connect users via different servers that may or may not be in the immediate vicinity of where the user is located, but some people may not want everyone knowing even that much.