Respect will always lead to peace

Kinda is because an atheist has made a decision on what he believes, that there is no God.

Faggots

Oh look a immature moron, you're not old enough for the internet are you? Where's your mother?

Alive, unlike yours who died from aids

Shut the f*** up guest. Take a look at his comment history guys, and you can clearly see why there needs to be a way to block guests. You're a racist prick.

Please do not feed the trolls.

The bastard had been reported and they can ip ban guests.

Stark - please calm down. Do as garlog says.

Will do. Can they really ip-ban?

Most sites can, I don't see why this one is any different and I've been on plenty of forums in my time that had to do ip bans on trolls and general asshats. The tech is available to allow bans clear to the m.a.c address level so that even using a proxy wouldn't let you access a site.

Thats quite awesome

How would MAC bans be practical? The MAC addresses in the packet change every time it's sent between routers. The website would only be able to obtain the MAC address of the last router to send the packet.

I've been IP banned before, trust me, it could happen. Happen to me for 4 days until contacting fs.

That depends on the connection though, for example I use a satellite modem for internet, it has its own mac address if it's blocked my whole network would be unable to reach a site so in certain cases mac blocking would be possible and easy. In some networks routers aren't practical or even used so mac blocking in those situations is also usable.

MAC addresses are a hardware thing, every unit has it's own address. When you send an information packet through the internet it passes through multiple pieces of hardware on it's way to the destination. Every time the information passes through another piece of hardware the MAC addresses in the packet change, so your router's MAC address wouldn't be in the packet that the destination website receives.

I stand corrected then, granted it has been over ten years since I took networking classes and those skills aren't readily useful in my current line of work although the computer repair parts get regular use.

Hey dirty faggot niggers, I'm back. I love how all these new users think they know everything about this website

You don't have to agree with them but there is no need to opress /call out other people because they don't believe what you do. That is flat out rude.

So really it's more that I should tolerate their beliefs, and not so much respect them.

No, I am saying to be respectful. Just don't call people out is what I'm trying to get at.

Just not calling people out doesn't really seem like respect. Do you think respect and tolerance are synonyms in this context?

What if it was the other way around? Would you want somebody to point a finger in your face telling you that the thing you believed in is stupid and shit?

As long as they had a good reason to call it stupid shit. That's a good way to expand and refine opinions and beliefs.