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Originally Posted by hellsatan

Moderators really have no need to view IPs anyway - They cannot ban users with it, as thats an Admin-only feature

They can still view Users IPs in the Mod CP, but there is no way to control that without file edits

Most moderators are not smart enough to realise that anyway so removing it from Posts is enough to ensure a certain level of Security

Satan

Most boards I have run, when a member gets banned they come back with another IP addy and/or sign up again. My mods ( which I wouldnt have if they were as dumb as you described) look up the IP to figure out if past banned members have come back. They have actually caught a couple.

Btw, this point is moot if its an aol ip.

All this hack is doing is impairing their abilities. If you dont trust your mods with something simple as IP addys then they shouldnt be a mod.

A better mod would be to remove the ability for mods to prune threads.