>>/3099/
> was one of the "innocent" that was affected by the ban.
ouch, that´s unfortunate. No wonder you sound like you haven´t recovered from it because you still have the ban like the raider received. In which one of them did you receive the ban by the way?
> It happened after the recent raids on /mlp/, so I deduced some of them might have originated from the same /24 or /16 subnet.
just after the raids or days after the end of that period? It doesn´t make much sense to apply that whenever you get rid of the mess. 
> you're a mod after all
in another place. Not just a mod but the owner of that board actually unless someone else has claimed it.
> they would rather prefer a diverse range of singular IPs spread wide across the address space, rather than continuous allocation.
that might explain why /16 or /24 bans didn´t work. I banned him for a week and the guy ban evaded it completely,celebrating it even. 

> most of the addresses won't belong to the provider and that guy may get new IP on different subnet probably effortlessly.
Exactly, so I went for the easy route and
> But the wide range might actually hurt a lot of bystanders.
it worked in the end.
> Was that really ban worthy?
spamming pre fabricated /pol/ images that were completely unrelated on purpose to derail the thread to his propaganda. Not even discussing and typing like a normal person would do, but as a mindless user. See  >>/3107/ as well. 
I do have an sceencap of his intentions behind and quoted his post before rangebanning him. I had my suspections that he was a russian user. You can check it by going to the site itself with the last post in it. 

> people have high expectations of the upcoming GETs, and you know how it goes on the internet, would really be a shame if someone were to spoil it
yeah, I mean there are ways to spoil it. but at least, do it manually and not with a tracker that attracts outsiders that would shitpost the first word that comes inside their minds and just leave. When I noticed the tracker, I lost a bit hope for having fun. Thankfully, /mlp/ got really good digits for this Christmas.

> This overwhelming availability of scripts and exploits for all kinds of purposes almost makes me miss an older era of less secured internet I never got to truly experience
you tell me, I got to surf on the internet properly around late 2009, early 2010. And even then, I didn´t know that I arrived so late at everything, I had thought that the internet and even Wi-fi connection was complicated stuff but the things is that..
> even the local village idiot can do all that and more. It kind of takes away magic from this stuff
everything has been so standardized and overused that no one gets surprised at all of anything. In no time, you can basically go for a guide of how to do X things with a simple tutorial and how the internet is basically made for dummies. 

> you had to have at least some knowledge to for example host a site
the so called hackers and the ones who work as programmers and like you said, they have to commercialize their products. How? By making them more simple and accessible. Even if you required some knowledge for them, there are so many people dedicated at computers that one would get the commands and scripts pretty easily and report them showing how they work. 
> I tend to invoke that point on many things.
yeah, it´s all about your own preferences and how you want to spend the time of the day.

> when you get access to some "arcane" (so to speak) or restricted piece of information.All the power (well not quite, but that's not the point), none the responsibility.
yeah. Not quite the freedom of consequences but it brings some comfort when you get used to it. 

> Being an eminence grise is one of the best positions a man can land.
especially nowadays when normies spend their time on social media and give their faces instead before yours. It´s almost like:show yourself, show yourself, I will speak with a smaller voice behind all of you.