[WikiEN-l] Blocking proposal

[Martin Richards]

Tony wrote:
>If there is a discussion (not a vote, a proper
> discussion) on this I'm pleased, and maybe I'll learn something from
> others' opinions on the matter.

Yeah, thats why i brought it here, and made the [[wikipedia:blocking policy 
proposal]] page, the "vote" is just a way to gauge consensus when there are 
too many opinions floating around to judge properly what people generally 
consider the best result. The talk page has significant amount of 
discussion.

I personally think that having this block plus a time delay of 1 hour on 
accounts created from the blocked IP address would put off all but the most 
determined vandals, and even the determined vandals would not be willing to 
repeatedly wait an hour everytime their new account got blocked. While it 
might be a bit annoying for the good users who wish to make an account, I 
don't think it would put them off, and it would easily be a price worth 
paying.

thanks

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Sidaway" <f.crdfa at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking proposal


> On 10/18/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This has been listed on bugzilla forever. we are waiting to see if the
>> developers  decide to take it up.
>
> I wrote a patch enabling logged-in users to edit on blocked IPs ages
> ago, but decided on balance it might well cause more problems that it
> would solve.  If there is a discussion (not a vote, a proper
> discussion) on this I'm pleased, and maybe I'll learn something from
> others' opinions on the matter.
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