Ya people I believe that something needs to be done about cheaters but you can't block their IPs because of the simple reason. Dialupers all have dynamic IPs!!! And as we all know there are almost half of them on the net. Only cable and dsl and other people hava static IPs. By blocking a surfer with a certain IP you can be sure the next time a surfer/customer will be using that same IP... That's how it is. Sad but nothing you can do about IPs... Well if you get cheated by the same IP everytime then it's one using a cable and your safe to block him without making any harm... but still when this person gets blocked by all his important TGPs he can just drop the account at that ISP and apply for a new one and get a fresh IP.... Sad but true...
So be careful when blocking IPs - you can easily block a surfer (if putting it in a .htaccess) or block a fair submitter which happened to get the same IP that cheater had the last time...
My 2 cents
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-- McSpike --