> Hi all,
> I don't think is the wrong place to ask.
> I also think that hide IP to logged user led us to many problems we
didn't
> encounter before the Phase III.
> Here is the problems I see :
> - Same user who use multiple identity to justify a pov opinion
> - Same user who use multiple identity to make multi votes
> - Vandale who use user account to hide its ip
> As sysop I have no idea to how block a logged user even if he do massive
> vandalism (except send a message to this list and pray for one of the
gods
can stop
him).
I don't see any good reason to hide logged user IP.
It worked fine on Phase I & II, no ?
Aside from privacy concerns, it would allow any sysop to ban any other
user, which might cause problems. To alleviate these concerns, we could
1) store the IP number the user signed up with in his user data
2) allow sysops to look up the IP number of any user who has signed up
less than a month ago.
This would make it impossible for sysops to obtain ALL the IP numbers of a
user, or to ban long time contributors, but still allow them to ban
vandals effectively by IP address.
Regards,
Erik
Thanks Erik,
Your solution can handle punctual vandale attack (except if he registred
enough time before).
Personnaly I don't care everybody (not only sysop) can see my IP address.
I fell it really better than the bad ambiance created by suspicion between
users.
Do you had any problems in Phase I & II with IP address !?
Overall, I think there are enough sysop so if one sysop block unfairly an IP
address (I don'y see the difference with anonymous user block), and other
sysop can un-block it easly.
By the way, it may be a nice idea to show IP block in the Recent Change page
(do you already do?).
Regards,
Aoineko