timmy010: i just meant as a user feature. so users can blacklist i.p.'s. not the staff. or is that the same thing?
Same thing. I mean, first of all, it's not exactly ethical for users to gather IPs. Second of all, only the staff could block them as a result of this blacklisting.
If you're instead suggesting that the users spot the IPs and know they're scammers, then the system that's in place already pretty much works: searching their username in the forums to see where their activity is, and checking them against the
known scammers list. They don't target those who already KNOW they're scammers (they just target them as far as downrepping and impersonation goes), they instead target the newbies who have no idea that there's been scamming going on and who wouldn't know to use these methods anyways. You'd be stuck with the same issue.