From: Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com
In general, some form of autoblocking is necessary or blocked users will be able to simply log out and conitnue editing. Carbonite
If they do, they can be blocked again, or their IP blocked.
Assuming you know for sure that it is them. But of course, you can't know that if you don't know their IP, or if they use a sockpuppet. And not everyone is an admin to be able to block sockpuppets when they show up.
Frankly, I am confused as to what the upside in all this is.If a user sneakilly logs in anonymously and makes acceptable edits, who cares? And if they resume where they left off or otherwise make trouble, that will be pretty obvious, won't it? They can simply be blocked then, and their IP blocked if there appears a need.
You'd think, wouldn't you? And yet, that's not always the case; quite often all sorts of IPs and new accounts show up to revert for someone who is blocked, all insisting that they are not sockpuppets at all, but merely disintersted third parties who happened to stumble on to the conflict and decided that their first edit should be a revert. One person who has been consistently e-mailing this list (including today) was involved in exactly such a war, and insists to this day that none of the IPs and new accounts were sockpuppets.
Jay.