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Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers
An anonymous reader writes "A particularly nasty Wikipedia vandal has forced a discussion to take place over whether to block edits from an address range used by over 67 million Verizon customers. Verizon has not responded to abusive Wikipedia users on their network before, even though the abusive Verizon users have released private information (phone numbers, etc.) of numerous individuals, and made countless threats that have also been reported to law enforcement. Wikipedia has done something similar in the past with users on the AOL network, which used proxy servers and thus allowed vandals to continue disrupting the site. Discussion is also taking place on alternate solutions to deal with abuse from this Verizon user, named 'Zsfgseg' on Wikipedia. If a block of millions is enacted, Verizon could potentially change how they assign IP addresses, or be forced at least to address a PR nightmare."
if you can't enable heuristics to stop vandalism and protect the content which serves as your only product, THEN YOU DON'T BELONG IN THE INDUSTRY.
slashdot = stagnated
If you weren't a cum dumpster, how would I know you weren't Michael Kristopeit?
Why do I hide behind an AC account? Because I am stagnated and am completely pathetic.
ur mum's face weren't a cum dumpster.
you are NOTHING
Who the fuck is Michael Kristopeit?
a little jobless time might be in order for the system administrators that designed the broken system.
hole.
I already did. Sorry bout that.
I am a pedophile and I support this post. Normalcy is overrated. You are a good man Mr. Kristopeit.
It's cool, I'll take the asshole then.
you're completely pathetic.
present yourself to me, and i will kill you.
WHAT A HOOP#!%*(&!#
you're an idiot.
the system was provided, the system was used as provided.
if the designers of the system no longer wish to allow the system to be used, they can certainly stop offering the service.
the intent of the designers is irrelevant... only the potential of the product they provide matters.
you're an idiot. there's a big difference between idiots and morons, and you're both.
I AM you.
"A young man was continually posting offensive messages and generally being a little prick. The board's operator's tracked him down and spoke to his father, and I remember Ward Christensen commenting that "we know now where Mr. Scopes gets his evil ways." I don't remember how it turned out or what they did, but Mr. Scopes' posts abruptly stopped."
I find it disturbing that they actually tracked someone down merely for posting offensive content on the internet. I mean, really, how oversensitive do you have to be to go to that extreme? That's probably why they were targets in the first place.
"There are always children (or adults with childlike mentalities)"
"My hobby is better than yours!"
"The problem with the Internet is that it allows such people to cause a much greater degree of harm than, say, a teenager with a can of spraypaint, as similar as the mindset may be."
If someone seriously gets 'hurt' by reading a message on the internet that they find offensive (which is highly subjective), then they should not only stop using the internet altogether, but they should also constantly plug their ears when in the presence of others, as they may utter something that they find offensive. This isn't a problem with the internet, this is a problem with oversensitive, weak-minded fools.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
The fact that they're even considering blocking editing from /6s and /8s is absurd.
This is the logical progression now that they find that blocking /19s just doesn't make them feel sufficiently powerful. /0.
My own Verizon IP address was caught in a ban of 8190 host addresses. My appeal to lift the block, at least for my address--was denied--they have no mechanism for identifying users and for distinguishing legitimate users from vandals. I have come to the conclusion that if Wikipedia cannot solve the technical problem of user authentication and identification or adapt someone else's approach, then its admins should be encouraged to block editing from
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
you're an idiot.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
God are you Wikinutters annoying. You are not only a MORON, you're a sad MORON. Get out of your mom's basement. Get laid. Get a life.
you are NOTHING
why you mad though?
it doesn't anger me that you're a pathetic idiot... it's a simple and obvious observation.
you're completely pathetic.
slashdot = stagnated.
how many times can you say the same thing?
butthurt much?
Zsfgseg here,
Just wanted to remind you kids to stay in school, and leave the trolling to the professionals!
I've got to go now though, Rachael Kristopeit is begging for some more of my giant troll cock.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
ScrewMaster, stop being such a miserable shit
i'm assuming your giant troll cock doesn't either.
you're completely pathetic.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of? you're completely pathetic.
I AM MICHAEL KRISTOPEIT.
u mad.
So says the Anonymous Coward.
What did the vandal say? That link is tl;dr
No, you are not.
ScrewMaster, stop being such a miserable shit
ScrewMaster rocks. Get bent.