On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:36, Erik Moeller wrote:
Do people still believe that anonymous contribution is critical to success, or is it just an attitude left over from the startup days?
This has been discussed to death, here's my opinion on what we need to get done in the next months:
- Allow sysops to check the IP of new* contributors
- Allow sysops to block new* contributors by IP/name
- Have IP blocks expire after a definable amount of time
- Use an additional cookie-based "soft blocking" mechanism that should
fool the technically challenged 5) In order to increase sysop accountability, log all sysop actions in the recent_changes (e.g. user:foo banned, page xyz protected)
In an arms race, no one wins, especially those with something to protect when the other side has nothing to protect.
Additional gateway/protection mechanisms will only exacerbate the problem.