Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-45977082-20200918115813/@comment-9605025-20200918175359

A range block is when you block a whole range of IPs instead of a single IP. Since they are using a VPN, it is recommended that range blocks not be permanent. The reason is that users do not own the VPN IPs they use. The create an account with a company and that company owns the IPs. When a user connects to the internet using the VPN service, they are given a random IP owned by the VPN company. As such, it you block a VPN IP, you are not just blocking that user but any user the VPN company randomly assigns that IP to. As such, if you range block all of the "user's" VPN IPs, you will be blocking the entire VPN company and thus all other users that use the VPN service; even those you didn't intend to block.

And yes, "whack-a-mole" just means block them when they show up and block them again when they show up again.