A few points:

I like tbc's suggestion of assigning aliases to users. I'd like to extend that, tho, to making the aliases display according to how each user wants: so that I could, for instance, make 64.192.whatever display as "FARTBOY" in red in all caps, so I'm sure not to miss his vandalism when it comes by.

I'm glad Magnus pointed out that IP blocks should be temporary. I'm on dialup myself. :-) But I do think that *temporary* blocks should be an option old-timers have in response to vandalism.

I agree with Larry (and Mike and Anatoly etc.)'s suggestion that any sort of scoring system *not* be public. I've lurked around slashdot and E2 long enough to see that encourages elitism and frivolous edits, usually for nothing more than ego-stroking (which is contrary to our goal). Perhaps we should set up different criteria: say 1) the user signs up; 2) the user edits article pages at least ''x'' times a week; 3) the user has created 4 or 5 pages which have not been shipped to [[page titles to be deleted]].

Other ideas?

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