Translations:Global blocks/4/en

Global blocks are technical measures that Stewards, Global Sysops, and Trust and Safety can use to prevent IP addresses or ranges from doing certain actions such as creating user accounts, editing, and editing their talk page. In some rare cases, these blocks may be applied so that they also affect users who are logged in thus preventing users in certain blocked ranges from editing as if they too were blocked. Global blocks differ from global locks which can only be applied to registered user accounts and which don't have the ability to have an expiration specified. Global blocks can either be temporary or permanent though it is rare for them to be permanent. All global blocks are logged here on Miraheze Meta at $log.