Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-5429417-20181117022920/@comment-24155515-20181119011634

Andrewds1021 wrote: TheKorraFanatic wrote: Applemasterexpert wrote: An admin can't find people's IP addresses if people are logged in. But they can use Special:Contact/general and ask Staff, who have CheckUser rights, to block the IP-range. It may not be the most precise, but couldn't you just select the block-IP-as-well option when blocking a registered user? It shows up as a separate block in the list so then you can use that IP to estimate the IP range they are using.

I'm pretty sure that labels the block as something that doesn't give up its IP. I remember being pushed to wits' end by a vandal on the wiki I admin and tried a lot of things including that before I would have thought of contacting staff.

The thing that worked was having an Abuse Filter filter block their IP range, and I think that's the only way non-staff would be able to do it to a logged-in user for a sure shot. But it also requires that extension be active on the wiki in question.

(Awkwardly, in my case I wanted to shrink the range after it was blocked by the filter but in a way that would for sure include the IP (which I didn't know exactly), but I wouldn't have been able to do that from the Abuse Filter's block log information except that the user in question did a misstep by later copying and pasting a page that included a notice of their IP block and the exact IP they were at (I don't remember how this worked since they would have already been blocked, but yeah), which gave the information needed to shrink the block but still be sure it was effective.)