Simone Pantaleo wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
We can't block his IP-range, if understand it
he's editing from
203.xxx and 141.xxx. That's 1/128th of the entire internet
(approximately)! Anyway, we really shouldn't permablock any IPs. As
for dealing with this user, what else can we do? I mean, he is in
essence banned for ever (I doubt he'd give up for an entire year,
just to come back and be a nice, productive member of the wikipedia
community). What can we do except to revert and block his socks?
Hate to break the news to you all.. but if you did decide to block the
intire Telstra IP range you will block not only the offending users/editors
but innocent users (like me for instance i am telstra broadband... i am
thinking those are IP address for a dial up connection though but i am not
sure) as far as how we should address breaches on bans... I have a few ideas
(parctually as it pertains to unregiested users-- will post something later
this weekend australian time on my user page wildkitten1205 @
wikipedia.org<http://wikipedia.org>)
as i had to wack a annoying vandal (who was unregeisted) with the help of an
admin last night and it got me thinking.
Of course, as Wikipedia heads for the top 20 websites, blocking an
entire large ISP is likely to become more and more likely to lead to
blowback in the direction of the ISP, particularly, I imagine, if their
users were presented with:
"ATTENTION $LARGE_ISP USERS:
Access to Wikipedia from $LARGE_ISP has been blocked because of your
ISPs unwillingness to address the problem of persistent vandalism/abuse
from $LARGE_ISP customers. If you are affected by this problem, please
call your ISP's abuse department on 555 xxx-yyyy to help resolve this
problem, citing [[Wikipedia:Trouble ticket ISSUE005153]]. We usually
find that these problems resolve themselves after the first few hundred
helpdesk calls."
-- Neil