A LiveJournal-based tool for tracking anonymous guests by IP address

[azurelunatic]

(repost on account of original poster's deletion, cleaned up some and with points from comments added in)

Title
A LiveJournal-based tool for tracking anonymous guests by IP address

Short, concise description of the idea
A LiveJournal-based way to track otherwise-anonymous visitors by IP address.

Full description of the ideaSome LiveJournal

Comments

[gerg]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

From an abuse standpoint, this would be an utter nightmare and would up our caseload through the roof. "I BANNED X AND THIS IS THEIR IP ADDRESS AND THEY ARE READING MY ENTRIES HOW DARE THEY!!!!!"

That single scenario alone would probably double our case volume if this was implemented.

[azurelunatic]

(I don't actually want this either, but I really really don't like it when a discussion was getting interesting and the user deletes their suggestion.)

[charliemc]

As always (smile), you did the right thing to put it 'back' again. I agree that we don't want to lose a suggestion, regardless of whether we're supporting it or not...

I think people were being pretty reasonable about why they felt as they do, but I'm sure sometimes we seem a bit harsh...

[lied_ohne_worte]

I didn't see the original suggestion or the discussion therein, but from other, similar cases I also got the impression that some posters don't understand that this place is for discussing whether a suggestion would make sense for the whole user base, and that that may lead to people saying they don't want it or would never use it. I remember one where a user seemed to want a particular feature for their own comm and could not understand why we were discussing that it would not make sense if all comms could do that, because after all, they had wanted it only for their comm.

[azurelunatic]

This is the extensively-revised version, complete with stuff that makes some kind of sense.

[charliemc]

Happily I think most of us here get it -- and love the helpful discussion of pros and cons.

I'm surprised anyone would delete a suggestion. It's actually a good thing to have something suggested and shot down -- so that others can see why it won't work...

(Or maybe that's just me...)

[lied_ohne_worte]

As you said, the comm might perhaps seem a bit harsh because we say clearly if we think something makes not much sense instead of saying "something nice" along with it.