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YoshiKong said:
Yeah that has been an issue during the past few days. We're just blocking those IPs as they offend: it's under control.
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Both of the ip's were from Poland (according to IP Lookup), if they create too much trouble, will the whole range or area be blocked?
 
Yoshiopolis said:
YoshiKong said:
Yeah that has been an issue during the past few days. We're just blocking those IPs as they offend: it's under control.
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Both of the ip's were from Poland (according to IP Lookup), if they create too much trouble, will the whole range or area be blocked?
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>Implying Poland is evil.
 
Not implying Poland, just saying where those IP'S are from
 
I have nothing at all against Poland. IP range blocking is something admins do in extreme cases if a vandal is using different IP's.
 
That's why I say it's theoretically possible.

And as for the Poland discussion, you could block a country at once, but what if a legitimate Polish user would actually come, do they have to visit a neighbouring country, just to edit?
It did occur onces to me, a video site has Blocked entire countries that were known to Hacking and Spamming, including, but not limited to, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, Mexico, almost all of Africa, Turkey (almost all of the Islamitic countries, actually), and many more.
But I told him how to do it differently (with better security), so he unblocked all of them since.
 
I think it's possible only to block IP ranges. Like if those IP's came from the same city, and it was range blocked, then some legitimate users from that city would be blocked as well (but range blocks can only be temporary, so they would be able to edit in a few months or so)
 
Yoshiopolis said:
I think it's possible only to block IP ranges. Like if those IP's came from the same city, and it was range blocked, then some legitimate users from that city would be blocked as well (but range blocks can only be temporary, so they would be able to edit in a few months or so)
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Actually, only IP's that share an ISP will usually have the same range numbers, so it doesn't mean that they are at the same location.
 
IP Ranges have nothing to do with Cities, Countries, Continents, etc., so what you want to Block is just bullshit.
But I see you have corrected yourself, anyway.