On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:23:25PM -0600, Fred Bauder
wrote:
Adding "my ass-crack will suffer the
consequences of the bong-hole!" to an
article on the French Revolution is well beyond the limits of any doubt. The
only thing that might hold back a ban is if that is the address of AOL, MSN
or some similar large isp.
Fred
If it's only one edit, don't ban. He just tried whether he can hit the
"Save"-button. A ban only raises the vandals interest in messing around
even more. I usually open a "User contributions" page and reload it after
5 to 10 minutes. If the user has made more edits, I revert them. I repeat
this 2 or 3 times. If he's still around, I ban him. This is less work
then looking up the IP and check whether it's a permanent or dynamic IP
or a web proxy or so.
I wholeheartedly agree. Only if someone is persistent for several days
(or is slamming the server) should one consider banning the ip.