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

[Rich Pedley]

I get nervous when people start talking about IP Bans. They haven't 
been effective for almost as long as I've had net access for. But also 
the chance of blocking the wrong IP and banning half of the user base 
is possible... well that is what happened when someone added the wrong 
IP on a forum I moderate.

(slightly different set up, but you get the idea)

Rich

On 11/02/2014 22:04, Otto 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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