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by kbenson 3306 days ago
> IP's get re-used and you can switch to a new one easily, so it's really not common or good practice for this to happen.

On the flip side, some people can't change their IP addresses easily, and getting IP banned (even if rare because of the reasons you stated) is actually a major hassle when it actually happens for those people. :/