Simone Pantaleo wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
We can't block his IP-range, if understand it he's editing from 203.xxx and 141.xxx. That's 1/128th of the entire internet (approximately)! Anyway, we really shouldn't permablock any IPs. As for dealing with this user, what else can we do? I mean, he is in essence banned for ever (I doubt he'd give up for an entire year, just to come back and be a nice, productive member of the wikipedia community). What can we do except to revert and block his socks?
Hate to break the news to you all.. but if you did decide to block the intire Telstra IP range you will block not only the offending users/editors but innocent users (like me for instance i am telstra broadband... i am thinking those are IP address for a dial up connection though but i am not sure) as far as how we should address breaches on bans... I have a few ideas (parctually as it pertains to unregiested users-- will post something later this weekend australian time on my user page wildkitten1205 @ wikipedia.orghttp://wikipedia.org) as i had to wack a annoying vandal (who was unregeisted) with the help of an admin last night and it got me thinking.
Of course, as Wikipedia heads for the top 20 websites, blocking an entire large ISP is likely to become more and more likely to lead to blowback in the direction of the ISP, particularly, I imagine, if their users were presented with:
"ATTENTION $LARGE_ISP USERS:
Access to Wikipedia from $LARGE_ISP has been blocked because of your ISPs unwillingness to address the problem of persistent vandalism/abuse from $LARGE_ISP customers. If you are affected by this problem, please call your ISP's abuse department on 555 xxx-yyyy to help resolve this problem, citing [[Wikipedia:Trouble ticket ISSUE005153]]. We usually find that these problems resolve themselves after the first few hundred helpdesk calls."
-- Neil