[WikiEN-l] Cheese Dreams/proposal for a new policy

Sun Feb 6 05:03:30 UTC 2005

First, we can whitelist anyone with an existing account from range blocks.
Then people that already edit and love Wikipedia won't be affected by this.

Once that is done, we could further display a big, bold "request an
account" link next to the "blocked" message.  Following this link
would allow users to request addition to the whitelist.  It would take
longer than the 15 seconds that creating a normal account takes --
more like minutes or hours.  You would have to wait for some other
user  to notice the request and act on it.  But that would greatly
slow down the process of repeated logins, and add a layer of human
filtering which would see through attempts to mass-create sockpuppet
accounts.  At the same time, it would avoid totally turning away users
in the same IP range who honestly want to edit.
  [ Alternately, we could just make users from that range wait a
certain amount of time to receive their account; perhaps requiring a
valid email address and mailing them a password after a short delay. 
The delay could even be adjustable based on the amount of trouble
we're having from that IP range. ]

+sj+

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 04:23:06 +0000, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What choice do we have? There's no other effective way to block abusive
> > users on dialups if the ISP won't get rid of them.
> 
> We handeled Mr treason. Remeber articles can be reverted and deleted
> faster than they can be created
> 
> 
> > I don't think anyone will blame us for trying to maintain the integrity
> > of an encyclopedia without running everyone off.
> 
> Are we using the same internet here? You are propsing to block vast
> numbers of people from editing due to the crimes of a few and you
> don't think people will blame you?
> 
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