Nicholas Knight wrote:
Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
Nicholas Knight wrote:
Rick did not know it was a proxy (how could he have?) [..]
So you are saying blocking an IP about which you know nothing is _not_ a problem?
Nowhere, NOWHERE did I come CLOSE to implying there was no problem, only that Rick can't be blamed for taking perfectly reasonable action.
IPs are summarily blocked for vandalism _all the time_. Occasionally a legitimate proxy gets caught in the mix. When it happens, it gets corrected and the IP is added to a list of known proxies in the hopes that the situation is avoided in the future. This is not at all unusual, and Rick is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the first admin to block a previously unknown legitimate proxy through which vandalism was being performed.
If you've got some magic way to detect legitimate proxies so admins don't accidentally block their IPs, we'd all love to hear it. Attacking Rick for doing the best he could in a bad situation is NOT a solution.
All that aside, I think the most relevant and important part of the objection to making Rick a target is the following:
and has apologized.
He realized his mistake, admitted it, and corrected it. I don't understand why he would continue to be taken to task for it.
-- Chad