From: Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch(a)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.