I said nothing in my post about developers doing the blocking themselves...
On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. We are defenseless right now and I dislike it. Dev blocks are not
a
solution, devs have far more important things to do and blocking open
proxies would come after "watching empty walls aimlessly" on my to do list
if I were a dev.
- White Cat
On 9/8/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think we really need to have some automation in
dealing with these.
Granted there are notable exceptions on some wikis such as the Chinese
wikis, but for every other wiki there needs to be a more centralized
block
on open proxies.
How likely is an average person to edit a wiki from an open proxy? How
likely is a spam bot or some destructive vandal script to preform the
task.
>
> I think a solution could be like the spam list - a centralized meta
page
for
open proxy blocks.
- White Cat
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This discussion is completely premature. Last I checked, the 'Open
proxies' page on meta was removed from its state of ''policy''.
What
you are talking about is surely doable, but we do not have a consensus
on if to block OPs, let alone which types of proxies or what type of
block.
Another solution to the problem you bring up would be cross-wiki
blocking by a certain user group like stewards. It would stop any
vandal-script globally for a short amount of time. (vandals rarely use
the same proxy twice).
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