Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • Aganim@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    IP banning is such an annoyance if you are unlucky enough to only be able to deal with ISPs that do not use fixed IP addresses.

    “Can’t post today, because another random person got my IP ‘du jour’ banned in the past” is a pretty terrible user experience.

    And the pro troll uses Tor or a VPN and only needs to reconnect his client to receive a fresh IP address. I consider IP banning to be a very mediocre tool at best.

    • httpjames@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yep. So many ISPs use CGNAT now because of the rising costs of IPv4 addresses. And for IPv6, you can get a /32 block for free from Hetzner or other cloud providers.