I am serious--if you need every jot and tittle of detailed policy spelled out for you, you should find a more congenial environment than FR.
The trouble with using IP address is that more than one user can share a computer.
And if the other user acts identically to the banned user, that's his problem.
And if the other user acts identically to the banned user, that's his problem.
Nope. Doesn't matter how the second person acts, they get banned anyway, right along with the offender.
Unless John's changed something, what I said is a fact. Ask him at your next Mods' meeting.