we don't outright ban VPNs
but the more popular VPNs tend to be banned because someone got banned while using them ( ´ω`)

We blanket ban Tor exit nodes, and have ended up permabanninb certain IP addresses/ranges that are frequently used to spam, ban evade, etc. - that sadly includes a lot of VPN servers

Not all VPN servers are B&, and there's certainly no rule against them - I'm using a VPN right now, as do many users

whats the purpose of banning until 2050 then if you know its just spam coming from a vpn? it seems counterproductive because the spammer will hop off the vpn as soon as they get banned and now nobody gets to ever use it again

We don't necessarily know if a given IP address is a VPN server - only that it's likely judging by the user's behavior, and the fact that some of them are publicly known as such if you look them up on teh interwebz

VPN IPs are often in blocks, and an attacker will rapidly hop from 123.123.123.8 to 123.123.123.63 to 123.123.76.89 and so on - and they'll keep using that particular VPN server (or whatever) until they can no longer can. In the frantic attempt to mitigate the attack as quickly as possible (which - depending on the severity of the attacker's mental illness - can go on for hours and be repeated daily for weeks/months) we'll just ban every 123.123.* address for 9001 days and make sure they cannot use whatever address/range they were using again

To give you some perspective: on 2025/06/25 we had a spam attack that resulted in a total of 87 posts across the various koko boards being deleted, and 87 mutes/bans/rangebans being made. That was a single day out of the 3 years I have been volunteering to moderate this site, and is far from the worst attack we've ever had - in fact it only lasted an hour and the user was relatively slow about it, while many other attacks we've faced have consumed significantly more of our time

very cool this is turning into another 4fag with random range bans, how long until the kolymapass gets brought back?

It's not random at all, and this is just the reality of the internet (or more specifically, registrationless websites) that don't want to be filled with soyjaks and spamposts on a regular basis

>how long until the kolymapass gets brought back?
Never, and I was one of the main people who campaigned for the removal of all that shit

>>68871
works for me

i have never had a problem posting using a mullvad vpn

i have to change ips when i want to post on heyuri and it gets tedious