tarquin wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 16:24, tarquin wrote:
AFAIK Susan Mason has not been unbanned by
Jimbo.
Could a developer block the IP?
"Susan Mason" connects from AOL (ergo, ever-shifting IPs which are
shared by many other AOL users).
in that case, we probably have to go for a soft-security option of
shunning: watch
his every edit, and revert mercilessly & hope he'll get
tired & go away
i think that should include trolling comments on talk
pages too --
don't respond, just revert.
From my experience with this user, and from speaking with them over
other mediums, I really do not think they will get tired and leave. When
Susan Mason gets blocked, they will create a new account, and begin
posting again. If their history can be a lesson, when Susan Mason is
blocked, a new user will be created (who will be useful for a while, and
then will grate on someone's nerves eventually), and that user will be a
little bit better than the last. Tuf-Kat put it well on my talk page:
There really wouldn't be any suspicion that a user is Lir once they
begin acting like a useful contributor. Since no amount of reasoning on
my part or anyone else's will keep this user off of Wikipedia, and
blocking the IP would keep off AOLers, I guess just block Susan Mason,
and let them create another account...block it when they commit
behaviors that go against Wikipedia guidelines. I will continue to talk
with the user of AIM and try to help them understand what behaviors
bother people and detract from Wikipedia.
--cprompt