David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/26 Soxred93 soxred93@gmail.com:
Maybe we can set it for only 1 day, but use a JS hack to say that it's indefinite. That might get the word out to them. :)
The idea of blocking a whole ISP is unlikely to fly. I suspect that an admin placing such a block without agreement from the arbcom and the Foundation (cos you *know* they'd get the crap for it) would be (a) quickly reversed (b) given a slap round the head with a trout at the very least.
Attention-getting blocks have worked on bodies the size of universities before (I recall two of them, both put into place by a sitting arbitrator who then managed relations with the organisations very closely), but even then it was a very last desperate resort. Throwing our weight around like that would be a PR disaster, no matter how unresponsive Verizon were being.
This is one reason I suggested that it come from Foundation level, to an equivalent stratum of responsibility, to head off the PR outfall. If negotiations fail, there would be a difficult trade-off between defending our position without giving details (per [[WP:DFTT]], [[WP:BEANS]] and [[WP:DENY]]), and making our case. Some overview of the damage caused would be a must.
However, as an Admin, the integrity of the encyclopedia is more or less my first duty, and I don't have a problem about blocking a whole ISP for one day if that is the only way of getting their attention.