Rob wrote;
Incidentally, my (default) proxy (194.117.133.196 cache-
haw.cableinet.co.uk)
is banned again - my ISP also caters to the recent goatse.cx vandal. I know how to manually change my proxy, but other valid users on Blueyonder in
south
west England ([[user: Nosrail]] for example) may not.
unblocked, and added to [[wikipedia:annoying users]]. no offense to you or Nosrail. :-)
kq
At 14:41 04/11/02 -0800, koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
unblocked, and added to [[wikipedia:annoying users]]. no offense to you or Nosrail. :-)
Thanks. I hope the problems discussed in this thread lead to the development of a more sophisticated range of tools for dealing with vandals. Both Erik's solutions (allow logged-in users from a banned IP, and automatically expire bans by default) sound good to me. Perhaps IPs whose bans have expired could be automatically moved to Wikipedia:IP_probation_watchlist or Wikipedia:Annoying users, and maybe flagged up in Recent Changes?
Rob
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