You get perm banned. You delete your account. You wait 6 months with zero interaction with the reddit site. You clean out all the reddit cookies in your browser. You delete any reddit extensions that you may have in your browser. You use a different email for verification. But you still use your original IP. Anyone ever try this?
Seems like an awful lot of effort for very little reward.
I was just curious if there is a period of time that passes before their system basically purges “banned” IP’s. They can’t possibly have specific IP’s that are forever banned
There are less than 4 billion valid public IPv4 addresses. At 4 bytes per address, a table of banned IP addresses is no more than 16 GB, which is child’s play to store these days.
You can compress it further and make a lookup table with 1 bit per public IP address (because you plan on banning a lot of IPs) and the size is reduced by 32x, to 512 MB. Now they can store their ban list in RAM indefinitely