Opening our custom IP search database to the public...

I personally wouldn't be so worried about it, If you haven't done anything wrong nothing to worry about.

 

Please address this Sythe.

I feel that some people that use it will read into it too much.

 

Also people from places like Singapore have the same IP a lot.

 

Is it possible to include a login time to this feature?

 

I think this isn't totally necessary. Not "an invasion of privacy" so much, more just not needed? Just my two cents thrown into the mix.

 

is that because there's a banned account and 'nother account with same IP and hash ip as yours

personally i like it and think it could be useful to avoid being scammed ^_^

 

I dont know why...but my IP claims I'm linked to about 50 people, including 3 past/present mods

 

^Proxies

 

Happens to everyone.

 

What does the hashed IP represent? What does it mean?

 

There is an IP check available to certain developers for checking IPs, however this is only used in limited circumstances. The objection to making this more widely available have been on the grounds of privacy. An IP hash would help this situation by enabling any account to be matched to an IP hash without making the IP publicly available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_Hash

 

Ah okay, so each IP has a unique IP Hash but this IP Hash does not reveal the IP itself?

 

Essentially, yes. It was also really confusing to me at first.

 

Catch all the vaders!

 

Pretty cool feature. Now there's less of a chance to get scammed by ban evaders.

 

This is an awesome feature! I can now confirm what I already knew! The fact that, I happen to match Steph (ex-admin) and Yakov (ex-global mod) and I have logged in way to many ip addresses with sythe.org

@Sythe, thank you for hashing the ip addresses

 

You should add it to quicklinks and/or make a sticky in market discussion regarding it

 

Say Sythe, this actually made me think of something.

Why don't you guys write a script that runs through all users / IP's to check for matches in the IP's and the hashes. This way vaders and such would be found way more faster. Ofcourse the more you'd want this automised the more of work it would be. But vaders for an example would be caught way faster.

Or is that a bit to hard to code & check?
It never hurts to bring up ideas and suggestions I guess.