Board Thread:Moderation Desk/@comment-644222-20150815034345/@comment-7263041-20150817002207

Does it even work though?

I mean, think about it for a second. The wiki at its very core, is a website that anyone can edit. Unlike guild website provides like shivtr and the like, you don't need to register an account, all you need to do is hop on, and edit a page.

And that in itself makes blocking people somewhat useless. Sure you can 'block' their main account but there are other ways around that block. So to use a hypothetical example, Moorwhelp could block me from the wiki, and I'd be unable to do anything on this account. But even if an IP ban is put in place, all I have to do is change my IP address. My ISP allows me to do that easily, which means that provided I don't try to log back in on my main account, I would be able to jump on the wiki and edit any page I wanted to.

And unless I was vandalizing a page, there would be no jusification for future IP bans, because there would be no way to know if I was simply an anonmyous user, or someone trying to circumvent an IP ban. You could revert any changes made to pages by non-registered users, but that in itself is questionable, because then you're directly interfering with pages belonging to another person without cause to do so.

But what about locking the pages? When you ban someone, you lock every page they have created. Sounds good in theory, but to use my hypothetical situation again, what happens when I ask one of my friends who isn't banned to make changes for me? They can't do that because the pages are locked, allowing for two possibilities:

1. The page doesn't get any changes and the characters stories stay out of date, which could be messy especially if RP profiles in game link to the wiki.

2. The person I ask to make those changes, then has to go to the admins, request that specific pages be unlocked, edit those, then request that they be locked again. Depending on how many pages there are to edit, and how many times they need to be edited, this could be a quick, painless process or it could become a tedious chore.