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

[andrew nevins]

> It is rare that somebody keeps this sort of thing up long term.

Yes, especially if you ignore them.


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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