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This is a really poor idea, but people keep bringing it up every couple of years.
It's not a database of jerks, but rather a database of IP addresses used by people who've ****ed someone off.
Example: Bubba logs onto Boffo's mud. Boffo's girlfriend flirts with Bubba to make Boffo jealous. Bubba flirts back. Bubba gets banned.
Now every mud can have the option of preemptively banning every player who connects from the same university network as the guy who flirted with Boffo's girlfriend!
But wait, Bubba runs a mud too. Bubba finds out Boffo's IP address and submits that for a ban, based on a set of fictional (but very creative) logs. Now every mud can preemptively ban every player who connects from Bubba's university, too.
Meanwhile, Bilbo the dedicated troublemaker flits from mud to mud, untouchable behind his huge range of proxy addresses.
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