User blog:JustCheckingUp/Just making sure it's all okay

I hope you guys are blocking known Tor Guard nodes. It will keep people who use Tor from vandalizing stories, talk pages, etc. Also, there is no way to block an IP range to an entire city.

IP addresses are unique to you, and although states or countries may have a similar structure to how their IP is built, they are only unique to you.

If you wanted to block an entire city's IP range, you would have to know who the vandal's neighbors are and who their neighbors are. You would just keep going until you finally have blocked an entire city, but that's a near impossible task.

You would need to know exactly who these people were, somehow contact them through email or social media, then send them an IP tracing link. Sound fun? Thought not.

How about we humor the idea of being able to block a city's IP range. Since Tor gives you the option to change your circuit for certain sites or change your identity entirely, you would only be blocking the city that the proxy server resides within.

The vandal would just keep changing his IP until you would eventually be blocking the IP range of visitors to the wiki, your friends, and perhaps even yourself. Don't buy in to these fantastical claims, actually put in work to fix the problem in a reasonable way.