From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org To: wikien-l@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.
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