Comment by therein

If all the traffic you see from a particular netblock is people posting hate speech, you're probably not losing much by dropping everything from that whole range.

> Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you.

There is no net benefit to allowing non-residential IP addresses by default, maybe add the Google search indexer to the exception list. And with residential IP addresses, unless you're international, it doesn't make sense to allow regions other than your target markets.

The only way to deal with the bot traffic plagueing the modern internet is to cut off as much traffic as you reasonably can.