Board Thread:New on Kancolle Wiki/@comment-1820055-20150302121253/@comment-26091666-20150821104823

Qunow wrote: ...back in SAO wikia and NGNL wikia, we're able to ban certain specific ip..

There is a reason why I said "no" for short answer because not all ISP leases out statically assigned IP addresses to their clients. Meaning that one can easily "refresh their connection" to get a new IP which is slightly different and hence evades any bans unless the bans were set as wildcards.

You have that, and you have the likes of proxies/VPN/VPS/etc and what not at your disposal to go around doing whatever fancies you because your real IP isn't necessarily disclosed to whatever you are editing, writing, etc.

Such manual bans are:
 * Time consuming, because they require one to do it all by hand and case by case basis.
 * Not very effective, because it is possible to "evade" bans as specified above.
 * Prone to victimisation, because you could be banning an IP address which is used publicly and was abused as such which forbades any potential users to do what they want.