a very nice man wrote on Sep 28
th, 2007 at 10:00am:
If the offending ip address was made public, I'm sure there might be someone with the capability of tracing it and perhaps initiating a Denial Of Service attack.
Just a thought.
The offending IPs are made clearly available on the history of the pages. However,
Denial of Service attacks SHOULD NEVER be performed on any computer. It is illegal, and if traced back to you, you could be prosecuted and end up in jail.
Keith wrote on Sep 28
th, 2007 at 9:51am:
I wonder what other site he/she vandalises? The logic applied seems to mean that we can change the capital of France to London on the appropriate page and keep changing it after it is corrected and there is a 50% chance that when it is protected it will be protected in the incorrect state even though that is patently stupid!
I know what you mean. That is why there are techniques in place to get content placed into the page once it has been protected. However, I would like to leave it a day and see if the user can be brought into the discussion. If they do not wish to participate, I will follow the procedure for getting information included and ask an admin to place it in. Hopefully that will bring them into the debate (if they wish to continue it).
Keith wrote on Sep 28
th, 2007 at 9:51am:
Where there is a dispute it should revert to the original for discussion not some random point with a note stating there is a dispute.
The rules for full protection state that an admin is not to pick-and-choose the version they revert - they are to revert the page as it stands. If I had asked them to revert it while the anonymous user was reverting it also, we may have got a locked copy with not even the dispute notice. Be thankful atleast that we have the dispute notice.
Keith wrote on Sep 28
th, 2007 at 9:51am:
I appreciate this is out of your hands, but I needed the rant!
Again good luck. If someone is unwilling to argue why something should be changed, it shouldn't be changed. That is just vandalism.
Don't worry - rants make people feel better
. Yes, it is vandalism, but they feel it should be that way, and we feel it should be the other way. Atleast now we are making some progress with it.
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