Actually, I had been considering doing exactly that. I hadn't seen it elsewhere (I don't read blogs much) but my plan was to make the hash so that, for example, if the first three octets of the IP match, then the first three chunks of the hash would match since many have dynamic IPs (but the hashing of each octet would depend on the previous octets so the hashing wouldn't be trivial to reverse).

I suspect even a hash of the source IP being displayed on non-anonymous nodes here would be greeted by complaints from some people. But I'd also like to discourage the "registered user pretending to be anonymous" sham. But I've also posted anonymously for good reason several times. Perhaps the ability to see the hash of the IP of non-anonymous nodes could be a level power or there could be a level power that allows comparing the source IPs of two specific nodes?

In the end, it didn't make it to the top of my to-do list in part because we've banned the IPs of the two most persistent anonymous trolls so the benefit was limited for now. I somewhat envy wikipedia's position of noting IPs of anonymous contributors from the beginning.

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: monastery mark-upedness (display IPs) by tye
in thread monastery mark-upedness by my_nihilist

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