On 11/19/02 2:12 AM, "Toby Bartels" toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
Solutions:
- Block more intelligently:
** Let admins see the IP of signed in users. Then we can at least know for sure who to block.
** Let admins whitelist a user name known to use a dynamic IP. (This can always be undone later if abused.)
** Allow admins to see all contributions from a given IP, whether or not they were made anonymously. This will allow us to check for multiple users and give us the opportunity to create the above whitelist at the same time that we block the vandal.
- Give blocked people a way to contact admins:
** At the very least, include a link to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] in the message telling people that they've been blocked, so that it will be easy for them to get in touch with me.
** Other admins can advertise their email addresses there too. (Risk: I've never yet received inappropriate mail at <toby+wikipedia>, and this is the only case where I've been contacted by a blockee.)
** Set up a mailing list for administrators to take blocking complaints and give blocked people a link to that on the block message. (Same risk as before, and we only need a few admins to sign up.)
- Others?
How about not blocking?