On 3/22/06, Gregory Price gprice@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
Here's one proposal. Please comment.
In any case, we leave in place the option to block an IP entirely. Whatever other, softer notion of blocking we introduce is just another option, to be used as a first choice but with hard blocking available as always if necessary.
Yep.
A first cut at "soft blocking" is to block anon edits but permit logged-in users to edit. As you say,
Agree.
the trouble is that vandals can make accounts too.
I suggest that for a first attempt, we simply disable account creation from soft-blocked IPs. That's still an improvement on the current situation.
Then, if as you say, you have the time to implement captchas etc, then I would say "go for it":) The part about requiring an email will definitely be contentious. I'm not sure *why*, since pretty much every other site on the internet that you can have an account with requires an email address (notably phpBB forums...grr). But people will complain.
Steve