This is such a sad attitude, like I personally don't want the founders telling players what they can and cannot say outside of genuinely malicious acts. Stuff like racism, homophobia and other bigoted seem to have attracted little attention or repercussions garnering the regular punishments for most other rule breaks. IP jokes seem to have taken a life of their own as if they're some huge issue which pretty obviously it is not, if a fake IP or even mention of IPs really upsets you this much maybe you just shouldn't be on the internet. We don't like redundant restrictions because they ruin fun on the server and achieve nothing so why have them enforced at all. Pointless restrictions aren't fun and the community isn't very happy to hand over the power to ban whatever jokes the founders want if they deem it "scary" enough.
This isn't like harassment it's just stupid jokes I don't see why we should just be okay with people telling us what we can do when it's not harming anyone else. But you seem to have a desire to lick this boot and die on the hill that banning jokes is epic sauce because I don't find it funny. It's weird to have this harsh a punishments for even mentioning IPs in a joke, clearly the community doesn't agree. You can tell by the fact IP jokes have skyrocketed in private since the introduction of this ban, it was almost never brought up but now it's happening again and again every day. People are always joking about "funny numbers" and how they're "scared". it's just so silly, why care this much about harmless jokes.
If there is genuine threat behind the post and someone is doxxing people yeah go ahead but I think most of us are yet to see that.
+1, I think it's funny and banning it has only made it funnier just making it a much bigger issue when it never was one