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

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

>From what I've seen, it's been more useful than not.
The few collateral damage pales in comparison with the amount of
crosswiki vandalbots we've been able to stop.

But that's taken for granted (it's done, and because of it being done,
nobody sees the vandalism
and therefore the usefulness of global block is not apparent to the observer)