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What are some simple ways I can BAN certain IP's?

I have a lot of annoying and vulgar-speaking people visiting my site and I already know their IP's, what can I do to ban their IP's, not including the Bravenet IP ban thing. I want to be able to COMPLETELY ban them from my ENTIRE site. I have a free account so it has to work within Bravenet. Also I think I have found a way to block them, but it requires editing the .htaccess file or whatever. Does anyone know if free accounts have one and how I can get to it? Also I banned a person using Bravenet ban, but they came back using a different IP. I would also like to know if there was anyway to ban them, like forever so that they can't keep coming even if their IP is different. Last thing, one of the people I banned came back and said he would help all the other people I banned by showing them how to use a proxy. What is a proxy, how does it work, and what can I do stop it from working??? I konw this is a lot of questions, but I have been trying to hold out from asking for a while but the problems have gotten really bad. I want my site to be a place where good people like me can escape the "unmentionables" of the world. I would be eternally grateful if anyone could help me, THANKS A BUNCH!!!!

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