[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

[Alex]

the dave ross wrote:
> I think it is very unfortunate that we allow individuals (vandals) to have
> such a huge impact on both the administrative volunteers and the general
> contributing public.  This whole global IP block issue is a result of yet
> another attempt we have made to stem prolific vandals, and yet another
> attempt which causes more collateral damage than it prevents vandalism.

[citation needed]
Is there any data behind that? Or is it just based on the fact that
there have been more complaints about collateral damage than there has
praise for stopping vandals?

> Why
> is it that we can't take legal recourse against individuals who persistently
> vandalize Wikimedia projects?  It doesn't seem like it would be hard to
> claim damages, we spend thousands of hours cleaning up after these people,
> we have the means to identify them to some extent to authorities.  More than
> once in my experience vandals have been made to account for their actions
> either legally or through an academic institution, I think that it is long
> since time that we say enough is enough and put some procedure in place to
> stop the persistent vandals through legal action.
> 

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Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)