From: "Tim Starling"
<ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 21:55:24 +1000
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Zog is back as Anti-Zog
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Zog is back as Anti-Zog
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 04:33:20 -0700
I think we need to revisit having the ability for sysops to ban logged
in users. Maybe the wiki way of doing this is to put the ability into
the software, but all sysops must agree to use it *only* to ban
*certain* variants on a known banned troll.
In the current case, it seems clear to me that banning Zog, Anti-Zog,
Baboon Mouth, JamesERay, and so on, should be done virtually
instantly, so as to discourage the behavior.
I agree. But how do we implement it? We could create the concept of a
"trusted user", perhaps defined in terms of number of edits and joining
date. If a user is not "trusted", a sysop can ban him/her. But ideally the
sysop should be able to also block the IP address. Here's an idea: maybe the
IPs of users could be available to sysops, but in encrypted form. So instead
of banning 152.163.189.233, we ban 675C4216 (possibly using slightly better
encryption than that).
-- Tim Starling.
I think we are talking about extreme cases here, even with Adam and his
clones it took a while to be sure we were dealing with one. This Zog is not
even posing as a legitimate user. (If I accurately understand the nature of
his edits).
Fred