[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[geni]

On 8/8/07, Benjamin Hallert <ben at vipmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of username blocks recently with account creation disabled
> and autoblock enabled, or a combination of the two.  Some of the admins I
> spoke with said they were doing this on purpose because of 'bad faith
> usernames'.  As these are essentially lifetime bans from Wikipedia (my IP
> address, while dynamic, lasts months at a time), I think the wording of WP:U
> should be changed so it doesn't explicitly endorse this, and I'd like some
> consideration to the idea of avoiding hardblocks for username violations
> because of the heaviness of the action.
>

Autoblocks do not perminatly such down an IP.


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geni