Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-4812386-20130702001358/@comment-4812386-20130713171642

IP addresses don't display your general location or anything; it's just that it's possible to find out roughly where the person with the IP is because of how IP ranges are distributed. Information obtained through sites that find the person's location from the IP isn't very reliable. IPs aren't even reliable for identifying a single Internet user. The only thing IPs are reliable for is identifying the computer or network with which a server is having a connection, and that's what IPs were meant to be used for in the first place.