My thought is that those who do this and are disruptive will likely have the new account blocked. If their not disruptive or revert waring, its no big deal (blocks are ment for punishment, are they?), but if someone starts creating loads of accounts, and is shown to have been using sockpuppets, the are a rather large problem, and arbitration / blocking that IP would seem waranted.
Normally were talking about users who've gotten a bit too excitable w reverts, or spoke in hasty anger and etc..., not some sort of internet terrorist out to wreck meyhem.
What I'm saying is their arn't ''many'' concievable benefits to the auto-blocker (I agree there are some), but their are alot of obvious downsides. Being blocked is hard enough on an editor, but the autoblocker adds insult and injury both.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 9/23/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com
I understand, but how does the auto-blocker help w that?
Well, you're right in that it doesn't help with those sophisticated enough to have a bunch of different "independent" IPs show up to revert for them. However, it does help with those who simply create a new account when blocked (assuming the don't change IP as well, which many don't do).
Jay.
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