Thread:A Bystander/@comment-28097343-20170327150258/@comment-28097343-20170328015409

Have you ever gotten a call from a number you don't know after you've gotten a new number yourself, and when you answer, they'll be expecting a different person and not you? Well, it's roughly like that.

You see, Choco, registered accounts are required to be controlled by a single person, by policy. IP addresses, however, may be controlled by 12 different people in one year, or hundreds of different people in one day. This is because the IP address isn't a human--it is simply a routing address, similar in some ways to your phone number. But unlike a phone number, most IP addresses aren't assigned to individual humans, but on an "as needed" basis.

Tl;dr: One IP address can be used by multiple people at the same time, so when one person gets blocked, then everyone else using the same IP will be blocked, as well.

And I'm just unfortunate enough to be caught in this mass IP block. Hahah.