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@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking proposal
On 10/18/05, geni geniice@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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l