Board Thread:Moderation Desk/@comment-644222-20150815034345/@comment-7263041-20150817090632

No it doesn't, nor did I ever say it did.

What I did say is that it would be the only way to stop someone who was banned from accessing the pages on an anonymous account. IP bans only work until the person in question changes their IP address, which is extremely easy to do.

Hypothetically speaking, if the admins banned me for whatever reason they chose to, I could not access my main account, and my IP would be blocked. Change the IP and the only thing I lose access to is the account. I can still edit the pages that I've made, and provided that the changes I make are not what could be considered blatant vandalism, the admins have their hands tied. They can't revert the changes because it's not vandalism, they can't ban my IP because they have no way to confirm if it's me or someone else.

Well, technically they could start reverting changes without cause and banning anonymous accounts, but I imagine if they started doing that there would be significant rumblings about admins overstepping authority and people would desert this wiki and look for another one.