On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
the dave ross wrote:
I think it is very unfortunate that we allow
individuals (vandals) to have
such a huge impact on both the administrative volunteers and the general
contributing public. This whole global IP block issue is a result of yet
another attempt we have made to stem prolific vandals, and yet another
attempt which causes more collateral damage than it prevents vandalism.
[citation needed]
Is there any data behind that? Or is it just based on the fact that
there have been more complaints about collateral damage than there has
praise for stopping vandals?
From what I've seen, it's been more useful than
not.
The few collateral damage pales in comparison with the amount of
crosswiki vandalbots we've been able to stop.
But that's taken for granted (it's done, and because of it being done,
nobody sees the vandalism
and therefore the usefulness of global block is not apparent to the observer)