# Proxy IP address use
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proxy-ip-address-use/654152
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 28, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proxy-ip-address-use/654152 "2013-03-28T04:49:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proxy-ip-address-use/654152/1 "2013-03-28T04:49:58Z")
Just a notification, for anyone who watches these things on a list, y’know, Matrix-style:
I, **Scholar Beardpig,** live in the People’s Republic of China and thus have to use Astrill, a commercial proxy program, to do many mundane and easy things, like look at Youtube or access Gmail. Because there are more things that require a proxy than that forbid it, I usually just leave it on all the time and forget about.
However, for reasons I find entirely sensible, this board does not permit access via a known proxy IP. No disputation. It’s easy to switch on-and-off.
However, should I try to log in from a listed proxy-IP, or should I already be logged in but switch to a proxy-IP, please be advised that this is just me forgetting to switch it off before I come here, or already have a tab open and do something in another tab and turn it on and forget to turn it off, or something like that.
No requests or anything, just notification. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proxy-ip-address-use/654152/2 "2013-03-28T12:47:18Z")
> [@Scholar\_Beardpig](#):
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> However, for reasons I find entirely sensible, this board does not permit access via a known proxy IP. No disputation. It’s easy to switch on-and-off.
>
> No requests or anything, just notification. Thanks!
Actually, we allow proxy addresses on this board. It’s just when someone is acting like a troll or being a jerk, and _then_ we go looking for their IPs, using a proxy is more likely to get you banned. Not _just_ because you use a proxy.
Once in a while a proxy address will be used by too many spammers and we might ban it for that reason.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proxy-ip-address-use/654152/3 "2013-03-28T15:31:16Z")
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[li]Banned by proxy?[/li][li]Kinda like found guilty in absentia?[/li][li]Should we support your by proxy by signing your votes over to someone else?[/li][/ul]
Is this even approximately correct?
😃