<br><div><span class="e" id="q_1195471f44bec14a_0"><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Blnguyen</b> <br>Date: 15-04-2008 10:00<br>
Subject: Re: About the CheckUser position<br>To: Vinhtantran <<a href="mailto:vinhtantran@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vinhtantran@gmail.com</a>><br><br></span><span>Hi<br>
<br>Yes it would work<br><br>If you click checkuser on a vandal account and you can explicitly see the IP addresses being used, so you can lock the IP directly, rather than just relying on an autoblock on the vandal's account<br>
<br>If it is a dynamic IP address it will give a lot of similar numbers like <a href="http://59.91.254.10" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.10</a>, <a href="http://59.91.254.24" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.24</a>, </span><span><a href="http://59.91.254.24" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.24</a>, </span><span><a href="http://59.91.254.224" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.224</a>, </span><span><a href="http://59.91.254.124" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.124</a>, and so forth<br>
<br>Then you can go and directly block <a href="http://59.91.254.0/24" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.0/24</a> and it will shut down the whole range, and click the "prevent account creation" and do not select "anon only". <br>
<br>If you think some registered user is logging out and anonymously causing trouble, then CU the IP range and then use "get users" on the IP range.<br><br>With #2, the autoblock only blocks their one IP so they can log out from <a href="http://59.91.254.10" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.10</a> and when they reboot their internet, it will send them to another IP like <a href="http://59.91.254.32" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">59.91.254.32</a> and that won't be autoblocked so they can carry on. Explicitly using CU to dig up their IP allows you to explicitly block the whole rane to stop this.<br>
<br>The CU access request form is here<br><br><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions</a><br>
<br>Thanks<br></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Vinhtantran <<a href="mailto:vinhtantran@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vinhtantran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Blnguyen,<br>
<br>
vi.wiki started to need CheckUser's position now. Can you answer some questions about checking user?<br>
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1. Vietnam is using dynamic IP address, and many members of vi.wiki are from Vietnam, can CheckUser check if they're changing IP and log in?<br>
2. There are many vandalisms now, all of them start from 1 or 2 people. Even when we block that user, we also blocked creating accounts and IP they're using, but they still can. Can you give us some advices? Can CheckUser solve that?<br>
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I hope we can chat together, via any IM you'd like, maybe Yahoo! Messenger, GTalk, or even IRC Channel. Thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
Tân.<br>
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<br clear="all"><br></span></div>-- <br><span class="sg">Trần Vĩnh Tân
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