On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote: [snip]
Can you suggest anything better that we can do to prevent people from minting as many accounts as they like and causing trouble.
You could require an email address...
Would not have the desired effect. Do you agree or do I need to make a point by mailbombing you from 10,000 email addresses? :)
IPs aren't a perfect proof of work but they are vastly better than email addresses. They are also painless for the user in the common case, unlike email.
We are allowing people to edit from the UK, you know — they have to now go through a painful registration process.
You've hopped on a pointless tangent in any case: We wouldn't have these problems if they blocked the image rather than the text. (Images are served from another IP that doesn't currently go through the censoring filters) They don't claim to want to block the text, if they did there would be more grounds to debate the wisdom of using IPs for anything.