geni wrote:
BT? As in
British Telecom? That's terrific! More customers means more
complaints and more bad publicity.
It means you are likely to affect admins who can and will unblock
themselves. Would you be happy if your ISP was blocked for a couple of
As I recall, registered users are already exempt from IP blocks. The
only change needed is to prevent blocked IPs from creating new accounts.
weeks (even suposing the ISP choses to take actionm
which it quite
well may not)? The number of complaints would be pretty low anyway we
It's a wholly moot point for me, anyway, I'm on a range of static IPs,
and those on dynamic IPs at my ISP rarely get new IPs (and it's not as
simple as disconnecting and reconnecting, you'd have to be disconnected
for many hours if not days).
may get a lot of readers but editors are far smaller
in number. We
would be the ones on the reciving end of bad PR for hopelessly over
reacting.
What choice do we have? There's no other effective way to block abusive
users on dialups if the ISP won't get rid of them.
I don't think anyone will blame us for trying to maintain the integrity
of an encyclopedia without running everyone off.