Timeline for Add cookie blocks to the IP-based spam-blocking system
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 2:32 | history | rollback | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog |
Rollback to Revision 5 - "IP" is colloquial shorthand for "IP address" and I wish to keep it that way.
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 1:58 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
IP is a protocol; it is IP addresses that are static, blocked, assigned, bound, fetched, accessed, tried, resolved, checked, banned, generated, tracked, chosen, detected, dynamic, grabbed, scanned, whitelisted, have different representations, that devices have, etc., not the protocol itself.
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 17:34 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2018 at 5:57 | comment | added | Nemo | @SonictheInclusiveHedgehog You probably mean "English Wikipedia", not Wikipedia. I'm not sure what part you think it's outdated. I meant the 7th link: phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152462 . See blockers. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 23:31 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @Nemo That page is outdated. Wikipedia thinks it's working, so they recently rolled it out to direct IP blocks placed by administrators, not just autoblocks. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | Nemo | Note that the "cookie block" on Wikipedia is experimental. Its effects are not fully clear yet, which is one reason it's not yet been done on all Wikimedia wikis. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/… | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 11:55 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog |
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 2:08 | comment | added | anonymous2 | @Sonic Yeah, sure, and like I said, it's a nice idea (+1): seems every step in the right direction is great, but I have doubts it will impede a significant portion of the serious offenders. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 2:04 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @anonymous2 If we make it less obvious that we're using cookies...much of Wikipedia's unblock help pages still advise people on the basis of IP address autoblocks | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | anonymous2 | Nice idea, but seems pretty easy to defeat. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 1:46 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @Shog9 That subset only includes trolls, not spammers. For spammers, you should check Metasmoke. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 1:45 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Of that small subset, the only two who would've been even slightly inconvenienced by the system described here are the ones who repeatedly revive the same accounts and are instantly suspended by the system. That's not... promising. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:37 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Do note that those are only a small subset of them. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:26 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:24 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @Shog9 stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/questions/2 (Charcoal team members only) | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:23 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Send me a list of these persistent spammers, I'll tell you if this would've helped at all. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:15 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:08 | comment | added | Byte Commander | Sure, but every stone in their path is a good thing, so why make their life easy? This should be fairly easy to implement too, so I'd agree with the proposal. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:06 | comment | added | Undo | I've occasionally wanted something like this for detecting vote fraud - a persistent cookie that unobservant account-hoppers would hopefully not notice. I think it's a good idea, but easily defeated with an incognito window by the more dedicated trolls. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:03 | history | asked | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |