Nothing good can come from enouraging editors to use socks and proxies to evade blocks. Where this has happened in the past I've found that escalating blocks on all offending sources tires the miscreant out.
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com
Nothing good can come from enouraging editors to use socks and proxies to evade blocks. Where this has happened in the past I've found that escalating blocks on all offending sources tires the miscreant out.
I agree that nothing good comes of it (encouraging editors to use socks and proxies to evade blocks), and that escalating blocks often tire the miscreants out. Also, socks created for the purpose of evading 3RR can be immediately blocked indefinitely. However, the more persistent ones seem to have almost limitless energy; blocks combined with page protection is often the only way of cooling them off.
Jay.
JAY JG (jayjg@hotmail.com) [050629 00:22]:
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com
Nothing good can come from enouraging editors to use socks and proxies to evade blocks. Where this has happened in the past I've found that escalating blocks on all offending sources tires the miscreant out.
I agree that nothing good comes of it (encouraging editors to use socks and proxies to evade blocks), and that escalating blocks often tire the miscreants out. Also, socks created for the purpose of evading 3RR can be immediately blocked indefinitely. However, the more persistent ones seem to have almost limitless energy; blocks combined with page protection is often the only way of cooling them off.
Note that trying to outlast the persistent reverter can escalate quite alarmingly, e.g. (real example) blocking half of Latvia for fifteen minutes at a time.
- d.