First, you have to understand what an IP address is.

IPs are not users. IPs are not accounts. IPs are the network address of the device that connects you to the internet.

This can be a home router, or a phone using mobile data, or a hub serving a whole local network (school, company, etc). Depending on your device, the way it connects to the internet, and the plan with your internet provider, your IP address can change several times a day, or every few weeks or months, or almost never.

This means if you block an IP and you're lucky, you will block a certain user for a while. However, if the IP address belongs to an internet cafe where the given user was using the free WLAN, then you block everyone using that internet cafe's WLAN.

So blocking an IP address can block a single user, or their home network, or a whole company or school. That's why IP-blocks should always be issued for a short time only and never infinitely.

• Fandom staff can IP block.

• Admins can IP block anonymous (unregistered or not logged-in) users.

• There is an auto-block option that blocks accounts that try to login from the same IP the blocked account had when being blocked for 24 hours (to prevent just creating a new account after being blocked).

^ I know what an IP is and your answers are very helpful! :) But do you know if a user that is IP blocked deletes their account, are all their other accounts using the same IP still blocked? Or are their accounts that use the same IP now unblocked because the original account that was IP blocked is deactivated?

From your answer it doesn't look like you understood it, actually. ;)

IPs are not related to an account.

If you have a laptop, and your Fandom account is blocked, then it is blocked no matter if you use your laptop with that account at home, at work, or at some public WLAN. The account is blocked.

If the IP address of your home router is blocked, you are blocked from home, no matter with which account, and your brother who has his own account would be blocked as well, but none of these accounts were blocked from work or anywhere else (unless the accounts are blocked as well).

IP blocks and account blocks are two different things. One blocks an account, the other blocks an IP. Deleting or creating accounts does not change anything to an IP block. It's not related.

^ Ohh I see, sorry I didn’t really understand before.

Thank you! :)