I was under the impression that account creation from *any* blocked IP was
disabled; I know it has been in the past, because I helped brion test it a
couple months back when we were having vandalbot username-creation attacks.
Essjay
On 3/22/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/22/06, Gregory Price <gprice(a)hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
Here's one proposal. Please comment.
In any case, we leave in place the option to block an IP entirely.
Whatever other, softer notion of blocking we introduce is
just another option, to be used as a first choice but with
hard blocking available as always if necessary.
Yep.
A first cut at "soft blocking" is to
block anon edits
but permit logged-in users to edit. As you say,
Agree.
the trouble is that vandals can make accounts
too.
I suggest that for a first attempt, we simply disable account creation
from soft-blocked IPs. That's still an improvement on the current
situation.
Then, if as you say, you have the time to implement captchas etc, then
I would say "go for it":) The part about requiring an email will
definitely be contentious. I'm not sure *why*, since pretty much every
other site on the internet that you can have an account with requires
an email address (notably phpBB forums...grr). But people will
complain.
Steve
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