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
I think the type of vandals where it is necessary to
ban very quickly and with no previous discussion are
only the very tough ones, posting by bots for example,
and making it hard for humans to clean the mess. These
ones don't wait a month before vandalising, more
likely a couple of minutes. Should this type of
situation be foreseen, I would put the time limit to
one day instead of one month.
For any "questionable" vandalism or "questionable"
edits (such as Daniel editing his page apparently),
banning is wrong. My Red Dice option of rainclouding
people and their contributions is better.