[wp-forums] Blocked user will not accept being blocked

andrew nevins andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 22:15:12 UTC 2014


And by ignore I mean don't reply (but continue to delete)


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:14 PM, andrew nevins <
andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It is rare that somebody keeps this sort of thing up long term.
>
> Yes, especially if you ignore them.
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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> IP bans are not very effective, really. Also, that is outside my immediate
>> control, I'd have to ask systems to do something about it for that, and
>> they're frankly very busy as is.
>>
>> However, I have considered putting in something to block "anonymous email"
>> services from registering accounts.
>>
>> It doesn't happen often, but when people start registering multiple
>> accounts like this (aka, being dicks), then it would be nice to just add
>> whatever temp-email provider they're using to a list and prevent it from
>> ever being used again.
>>
>> It is rare that somebody keeps this sort of thing up long term.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jen Mylo <jenmylo at wordpress.org> wrote:
>>
>> > IP ban was my thought as well. It's fine to ask the /meta team (or Otto)
>> > to nab things like this when there's a repeat offender that is
>> distracting
>> > from supporting others.
>> > j
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