On 5/17/05, monk@zoomcon.com monk@zoomcon.com wrote:
My first proposal: after I am logged on, I should have the option to disallow my IP address from anonymous posting.
This is okay for you, as you have a static IP address - so it's okay for you to "claim" this address as your own. But many people use shared proxies (corporate, school, web-accellerator, etc.) and others have very dynamic IP addresses (AOL) too. If someone could "claim" one of these addresses then they could effectively deny service to everyone else in the group that shares that (for whatever period such a "claim" would last).
In most of those cases, there's really no sensible technical solution which would allow the software to distinguish between those with shared or dynamic IPs and those with static ones.
All I can suggest is that you make some significantly noticable change to your .css file (like changing the background colours of things). Hopefully you'll get used to these changes, and you'll be more likely to notice should you inadvertently edit while logged out.