JAY JG (jayjg(a)hotmail.com) [050629 00:22]:
From: "Tony Sidaway"
<minorityreport(a)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.