First, we can whitelist anyone with an existing account from range blocks. Then people that already edit and love Wikipedia won't be affected by this.
Once that is done, we could further display a big, bold "request an account" link next to the "blocked" message. Following this link would allow users to request addition to the whitelist. It would take longer than the 15 seconds that creating a normal account takes -- more like minutes or hours. You would have to wait for some other user to notice the request and act on it. But that would greatly slow down the process of repeated logins, and add a layer of human filtering which would see through attempts to mass-create sockpuppet accounts. At the same time, it would avoid totally turning away users in the same IP range who honestly want to edit. [ Alternately, we could just make users from that range wait a certain amount of time to receive their account; perhaps requiring a valid email address and mailing them a password after a short delay. The delay could even be adjustable based on the amount of trouble we're having from that IP range. ]
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 04:23:06 +0000, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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.
We handeled Mr treason. Remeber articles can be reverted and deleted faster than they can be created
I don't think anyone will blame us for trying to maintain the integrity of an encyclopedia without running everyone off.
Are we using the same internet here? You are propsing to block vast numbers of people from editing due to the crimes of a few and you don't think people will blame you?
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