http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Admins_willing_to_make_difficult_bloc...
I'd add myself to that page (my home address and home and mobile numbers are findable), but I don't have time for the abuse cases of this sort I already get asked to investigate. How annoying!
That said: we need hardarses, but our hardarses need to remember to block with *love*.
- d.
On 4/10/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Admins_willing_to_make_difficult_bloc...
The problem is that it isn't easy to predict in advance which cases are going to cause problems.
-- geni
On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Admins_willing_to_make_difficult_blocks
I'd add myself to that page (my home address and home and mobile numbers are findable), but I don't have time for the abuse cases of this sort I already get asked to investigate. How annoying!
That said: we need hardarses, but our hardarses need to remember to block with *love*.
Why can't we just use Checkuser (if this is coming from a registered user) to discover the ISP or employer of a harassing/abusive user (wherever they're accessing WP from) and inform them of this sort of abuse. Or, perhaps, get their identity so the harassed editor has legal (or, dare I say, extra-legal) recourse.
On 4/10/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Why can't we just use Checkuser (if this is coming from a registered user) to discover the ISP or employer of a harassing/abusive user (wherever they're accessing WP from) and inform them of this sort of abuse. Or, perhaps, get their identity so the harassed editor has legal (or, dare I say, extra-legal) recourse.
Legal tends to be the expenisive and impracticle. Extra-legal tends to be a bad idea. In any case the case which has triggered this has already gone offline. that is rather the problem. Welcome to the next stage of the internet when activities online start to have increaseing meatspace effects -- geni
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David Gerard stated for the record:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Admins_willing_to_make_difficult_bloc...
I'd add myself to that page (my home address and home and mobile numbers are findable), but I don't have time for the abuse cases of this sort I already get asked to investigate. How annoying!
That said: we need hardarses, but our hardarses need to remember to block with *love*.
- d.
Oh, don't worry, David. We wouldn't be signing up if we didn't love to block.
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