On Monday 11 November 2002 04:43 pm, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
People have stated that the percentage of vandalism by anonymous users has gone up recently.
Is this simply because we have instituted IP blocking, and increasingly use it?
It's hardly unlikely. In fact, it's what normally happens when hard security measures are taken.
Surely you mean to say "logged in users" at the end of the first line? Then yes, this is what happens when people meet with hard security, they find ways to work around it.
-- Toby
That is why we should always try to follow vandals around and fix their vandalism first before resorting to a block.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)