On Nov 27, 2007 8:59 AM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Now, there are a variety of other techniques that can be used to find banned users and taken together with those they are often effective. However, we shouldn't simply use evidence prior experience with Wikipedia as a good reason to assume someone is a banned returning user.
Indeed. The correct behavior is probably to email the user privately about your concerns and give them a chance to address them. If that doesn't work, getting a mutually trusted third party to act as an intermediary might be a good idea.
-Matt