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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Example of a user who should have been banned a long
From:       geni <geniice () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-09 12:25:45
Message-ID: f80608430609090525o10458bb2n6fed0f2e8d1ad1ab () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/9/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com> wrote:
> Death Phoenix wrote:
> > On 9/7/06, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco@mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> >>
> >>> Why was this user not banned months ago?
> >> It is blocked for 1 month now, and copyvio images being deleted.
> >>
> >
> > I'm assuming Jimbo knows about the one month block, since he made that block
> > himself. Can we construe his post as being a formal request to have him
> > permabanned?
>
> No, I was actually just trying to raise the more general issue.  It
> looks like what is happening is that bots are warning people repeatedly
> but it is not being called to the attention of humans.  I would say,
> gee, if a person gets that many warnings, and doesn't respond, and keeps
> up the bad behavior, then an indef ban is certainly justified.
>

The problem is that normaly they do a load of uploads then go away so
there is little point in blocking them.


-- 
geni
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