On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:32, Rob Brewer wrote:
At 08:41 05/11/02 -0500, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Has anyone thought of selective banning?
Refuse anonymous edits from the banned IP, but allow signed-in edits.
We could supply a message like, "Sorry but due to abuse from IP i.j.k.l,
you must sign in to contribute."
I think that's what Erik Moeller had in mind with point #2 of his message
at 11:47:25 +0100 yesterday, and I think it's a good idea. If vandals want
to be persistent we should at least make them go to the trouble of
getting a fake hotmail address to sign up with ;-)
At the same time, we should not force people who want to contribute
anonymously to sign in.
If we really feel IP banning is so necessary that we need to impose it
even on proxy IPs, then maybe we should just end anonymous contributions
entirely.