User talk:115.189.97.253

This is is a shared IP for a major NZ telco.
Spark Nz (also provides physical network capacity to Skinny Nz and a large proportion of all NZ ISP’s use Spark networks and IP addresses). To block it because of behaviour by one person who happened to be assigned this ip at some point is effectively blocking more than half the country as it belongs to Spark Nz the major telco. In fact you may as well just block the country, New Zealand by IP, lol.

Please google “Spark Nz ISP IP address ranges” and also google how many NZ customers use the Spark network for their mobile or fixed data and you will see how pointless it is to block this IP/range.

They renew IP addresses multiple times a day and most plans don’t offer a static ip so trying to stop a user who is breaching any rules this way is going to be about as effective as sticking your hand into a large haystack one time and expecting to pull out a needle…….