A user keeps on getting blocked but returns with returns with one new sockpuppet after another. He wrote on my page:
Hey, it's not my fault wikipedia doesn't have a registration system that requires input of an actual email address. Haha.
He's right... Why don't we have one?
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:56:29 +0000, Abe Sokolov abesokolov@hotmail.com wrote:
A user keeps on getting blocked but returns with returns with one new sockpuppet after another. He wrote on my page:
Hey, it's not my fault wikipedia doesn't have a registration system that requires input of an actual email address. Haha.
He's right... Why don't we have one?
I've got several GMail invites - would you like one?
Because then we'd stop being a wiki, and loose a huge number of contributors who just stop by to fix things, and then stay, but still not exclude persistant troublemakers. Mark
--- Abe Sokolov abesokolov@hotmail.com wrote:
A user keeps on getting blocked but returns with returns with one new sockpuppet after another. He wrote on my page:
Hey, it's not my fault wikipedia doesn't have a registration system that requires input of an actual email address. Haha.
He's right... Why don't we have one?
-User:172
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Abe Sokolov wrote:
A user keeps on getting blocked but returns with returns with one new sockpuppet after another. He wrote on my page:
Hey, it's not my fault wikipedia doesn't have a registration system that requires input of an actual email address. Haha.
He's right... Why don't we have one?
Because, as has been discussed many, many, MANY times, such a system would inconvenience legitimate contributors while having absolutely no effect on determined vandals.
Do you know how many perfectly valid, functional email addresses I have? 35 active at the moment. I could have as many as I want. I could create millions of addresses if I wished, the only limit being system storage and RAM. Anyone with less than US$7 and an internet connection that gives them a world-routable IP address can have all the email addresses they could possibly want. They wouldn't be particularly reliable, but they're plenty good enough for getting around any system Wikipedia could institute.
Having a valid email address -- or thousands -- means nothing, and registration systems that rely on verifying email addresses to prevent abuse are inherently broken.