On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:39:27 -0400, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com>
gave utterance to the following:
From: Richard
Grevers
<snip>
The legitimate user deserves the right to use
wikipedia. If the user
who
logs in vandalises wikipedia, then they should be
blocked by username.
If being blocked is necessary. It shouldn't be our primary response to
block anyone whose contributions lower the quality of Wikipedia.
Blocking should be a last resort, not first.
What is displayed to a person on a blocked IP at present? Perhaps such a
person who clicks on an "edit this page" link should be redirected to an
education page, which starts with "You have been brought to this page
because the last edit made from this IP address was considered
vandalism..."
Of course cookies would make it much easier to determine good from bad,
but are still not foolproof.
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried