@Ttslover0987814: There can't really be two duplicate IPV4 addresses, so how else cold the two IP's been a perfect match?

Heh, taking a quick read through his history doesn't make me think that it randomly happened. Look at the writing, their tendency to do little blip spam topics, the OP's over obliviousness to obvious scams, him never responding, and him wanting to delete the topic where he got cautioned

@1, your conjecture for claiming that someone just "magically" managed to duplicate your IP address is both impossible, for one, and highly questionable, for two. It is not possible for someone to just magically use an IP address they don't own unless they get on the network that IP address is used on. Your logic is incredibly flawed and I'm extremely doubting your claims.
@6, IP address faking isn't possible. You can use a VPN to use another IP address, but the likelihood of both the other guy and this one getting the exact same IP address, even on a VPN, is incredibly low unless they both are the same person or are using a home-grown VPN that they set up together. Which would suggest that both are in cahoots with one another.

if you use a vpn built into a browser such as opra GX, anyone who does that in the same general area has the same IP, for one. For too, its hard, but not impossible, especially if your making a ocstum IP through the internet properties dialogue.

No, let's be clear on this, you can't fake an IP.  It's not hard, it's impossible, unless you're saying that you've got what is essentially admin access to an ISP.  You either have to be geographically close and incredibly, incredibly unlucky, or using a VPN in the first place.  You don't get to set your IP address on the public internet, only on your local network.  Going into the system dialog and making a custom IP only changes it for other stuff in your house, basically.  The IP you have on the internet is only assigned by your ISP and is assigned to the router your ISP gave you and you have no power to change it.

I am oversimplifying, before someone is all like "but that's not right", I know this.  But the subtleties don't matter to this discussion.

There is one way to be so unlucky to have your IP used...Though, you'd have to be pretty silly to do this...And I can't think of how your IP got banned here...If you are set as a node for a TOR network, that would do the trick. But could you even visit the forum from a TOR network? I've never used it personally, so hopefully someone more knowledgable might be able to  weigh in.

Plus the data trail is just too rocky as far as residential internets go. I'm pretty sure the same can be said for ipfs nodes as wel, once those become more common place. If anyone wants to get a taste of what the internet could eventually become if ipfs actually takes off, try Usenet. Blast from the past yet ahead of its time.

@Ttslover0987814, do you know any other blind or VI people in your family or neighborhood?

I don't know. I can certainly see why the rest of y'all don't trust them, but given that the writing styles do seem different, I'd say we should give them the benefit of the doubt here. If they are the kind of assbutt that think spamming the forum is fun and clever, they'll expose themselves soon enough, trust me.

Also, to all of you claiming they never reply to topics ... well yeah, they mostly don't. But they have done it twice, thrice if counting the introduction topic that everyone's required to reply to.
Granted, those two replies are both in their own topics. But it's something, I guess?

hi,
something to say to consider that IP addresses are not different:
1. they both use the same ISP, the ISP assigns ip addresses to each of his clients dynamically
2. he was running a VPN server, and that spammer had access and connected to his computer (totally won't possible for this scenario).
3. they both use a proxy tunnel to access here (proxies are easy to find) and I don't think it happened here, and it might occur in one day.

I call shenanigans.

well, sense it's defenitly not sediment then it's someone else, i guess ur though. This seems like a uzername he would use lol.