Yeah so is the option to inform you, you are bothering people. Blocking is an eventuality of course, but i usually only block right away comments whose content i dislike and except your cc license i have nothing against the content of your comments.
Theres a reason why the 90s web forum design was never widely adopted and it's dead now. Nobody cares about witty quotes or how many posts an account has, or badges, or a little picture or footers.
Anyway, i won't even comment on the law part because that's a can of worms and i don't want to write a huge wall of text. Like i previously said, for the purpose you think the footers have, they are pointless. Nevertheless, i appreciate at least the small font.
Anyway i think i said what i had to say about this.