Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu> wrote:

The Cunctator wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:

>>* Block more intelligently:
>>* Give blocked people a way to contact admins:
>>* Others?

>How about not blocking?

An obvious solution to the problems of this weekend.
But I don't think that you'll get the rest of Wikipedia
to go along with your suggestion.
Do you think that the other ideas will make things better?
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A sysop being able to act by preventing more than one save per xx of time(dunno 2/5 minutes for example) for

- a specific ip
- or a specific user name
- or all non-logged ips

for a given time (dunno again - say 1 hour) ?

These options allow to slow down vandalism process, in particular *bots*.

It gives more time to (quietly) hunt for the vandals ips, and then eventually proceed to a block.

It does not prevent a "good" wikipedian (unjustifiably blocked by very quick protection measures) to actually edit a page though (even if it might be unpleasant to have to wait to save a page...maybe a good way to promote consequent editing ;-))