On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
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Can you
suggest anything better that we can do to
prevent people from minting as many accounts as they like and causing
trouble.
You could require an email address...
Would not have the desired effect. Do you agree or do I need to make a
point by mailbombing you from 10,000 email addresses? :)
IPs aren't a perfect proof of work but they are vastly better than
email addresses. They are also painless for the user in the common
case, unlike email.
We are allowing people to edit from the UK, you know — they have to
now go through a painful registration process.
You've hopped on a pointless tangent in any case: We wouldn't have
these problems if they blocked the image rather than the text. (Images
are served from another IP that doesn't currently go through the
censoring filters) They don't claim to want to block the text, if
they did there would be more grounds to debate the wisdom of using IPs
for anything.