Well, hiding my IP I just see as an extension of having a punting phone. Yes, call me super-paranoid, but everyone has their own reasons, everything doesn't have to be about trolling. Like I said I've never heard of a troll drawing attention to himself and his username by coming on here specifically asking for a VPN exemption! No doubt there are some people out there that might think having a punting phone is super paranoid. Doesn't give them a right to have a go at anyone who keeps one! Each to their own, right?
Privately, I always use Opera for whatever I'm doing, its easier in terms of discretion as well - if friends and family ever need to have access to my laptop once in a while, like the majority of folks they head straight to Google Chrome. My Opera browser is hidden - its private, for myself.
Its not like I'm especially wanting to use a VPN for UKP. Its second nature for me. I use Opera for everything and that won't change. So what would qualify as a "good reason" for wanting an exemption? I don't know. I could tell you that I'm travelling around the world a lot so I have no choice but to use it, and who knows, that might get me an exemption? But how would admin know that I'm not a troll using that as a convenient excuse? How would he know that if, one day I'm posting from Germany, and the next from Holland, I'm not sat at my desk here in Mile End having a chicken curry while working on my next troll post...? You see where this is leading...
Not using a VPN is no big deal, it just means I can only respond on threads maybe once a week or even less. Well, whenever I get time to pop in to my local internet cafe. And it also means having rush through posts which might contain lots of errors and not having the pleasure of 'loitering' on the site - checking out different posts, reading PMs, and stuff like that. Of course UKP aint a porno site, but it does contain its fair share of titties at the top. And some cafe owners can be asshats!
