Rangeban

A range-'nishment is a type of punishment handed down by 4chan moderators. Unlike a normal 'nishment, a range of several IP addresses associated with a user is blocked from posting preemptively. This is needed to 'nish some users whose internet connections assign IP addresses dynamically. A range-'nishment 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-'nishments because it will force more posters to purchase a 4chan pass.

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

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

Trivia

They will never range'nish 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.