Yeah it was the comment in your message, plus growing awareness of privacy from the posts I came across on the fediverse, that helped me decide to look at these settings for literally the first time in the years I've been on DW. So thank you for that, and I think posting about it would help spread awareness too if you still feel like making that post.
IP logging seems like a peculiar combination of intrusiveness (for good-faith commenters) and futility (for trolls with some technological capability), though there is that in-between gap with inept trolls which is why I'm still logging anonymous commenters. I respect the setting if it's a conscious choice especially since commenters are warned in advance, but bloggers often use the default setting out of sheer inertia and I don't think enough commenters are cognizant of what it means.
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Date: 2019-01-23 04:22 am (UTC)IP logging seems like a peculiar combination of intrusiveness (for good-faith commenters) and futility (for trolls with some technological capability), though there is that in-between gap with inept trolls which is why I'm still logging anonymous commenters. I respect the setting if it's a conscious choice especially since commenters are warned in advance, but bloggers often use the default setting out of sheer inertia and I don't think enough commenters are cognizant of what it means.