It sometimes happens that true vandals login. I give as an example Annetit on the [[Woman]] article. If this person was posting from an ip number, instead of a username, they would have been promptly and justly banned immediately.
It would be nice if sysops could just as easily obtain and ban the ip number for a username.
There *are* some potential political problems with this, obviously. One of the most important "checks" against sysop "power" is that by logging in, people are immune to banning unless we go through a whole political process of deciding to ban them, which is always a big deal.
And that's a good thing, I think, as uncomfortable as it is sometimes.
So, ideas?
--Jimbo