Poor,-
How hard would it be to create a "soft
ban" on certain IP number
ranges?
To thwart a troll, we may have occasion to block,
say, all IP's from
142.177.0.0 to 142.177.255.255 -- to prevent someone like EofT from
posting anonymously to Wikipedia and thereby evade a hard ban.
If necessary, can be done using a small script, but I'm strongly opposed
to it. That's the IP of an entire large Canadian ISP with thousands of
customers. I also find it a bit problematic how easily it is assumed
these
days that two users with somewhat similar IP numbers are the same
person.
Let's try to establish strong standards of evidence here.
I feel the same. It always worries me to see people accused of being a
repeat account on what appears to be very circumstantial evidence. But
/are/ there any ways to improve this? Presumably ISPs could give exact
identities - but I guess they are difficult (and maybe expensive?) to
persuade to help in IDing problem users.
So what other options are there?