Rangeban

A range-ban is a type of punishment handed down by 4chan moderators. Unlike a normal ban, a range of several IP addresses associated with a user is blocked from posting preemptively. This is needed to ban some users whose internet connections assign IP addresses dynamically. A range-ban may only apply to certain boards.

Controversies

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There is a popular conspiracy theory claiming that moderators are intentionally trigger-happy when issuing range-bans because it will force more posters to purchase a 4chan pass.

The range-ban system in general has been criticized because innocent users who happen to share an ISP with rule-breaking posters become banned despite having done nothing wrong.

Sometimes entire countries or large swathes of them are rangebanned, usually Finland and India, as part of the temporary extended length global rules to fight spam and build back better. Denmark was rangebanned temporarily when a Danish /pol/ user spammed flat earth infographics redpills for several weeks.

Trivia

They will never rangeban Israel.

Types

Full

Completely prevents posting. OP posts, image/file replies, and text replies are blocked.

Uploading files

Blocks any posts that have a file, which also includes new threads since they require an image/file. Thanks moot.

Creating new threads

Prevents the IP range from creating new OPs. Users of the range can still post images/files in replies to other threads.