Golden Snitch Cookie Cutter

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People love their daily dose of information on the internet. It keeps them informed and engaged about everything happening around the world. News sites are always flooded with comments from readers, sharing their opinions on a particular story or event. But, sometimes, news organizations struggle to attract the right kind of visitors. The wrong audience may start engaging in arguments instead of reading the content and providing value to the conversation. To get rid of these unwelcome visitors, site administrators turn to blocking IP addresses associated with trolls or abusive commenters. However, this method has its own set of issues because people sharing the same IP often live together or use shared internet connections. So, in many cases, innocent people end up being banned as well. Moreover, IP address tracking has another major flaw - it's quite difficult to implement efficiently for high traffic websites that get hundreds of comments each minute. Thus, moderators have no choice but to waste time on blocking visitors one by one, or sometimes even worse, blocking all visitors with a certain range of IP addresses just in case some unwanted person comes in with the same IP address. This whole process not only causes a huge distraction from doing their main job - keeping discussions polite and clean, but also ends up costing them both money and man power to implement this inefficient security method.