On 20 January 2015 at 03:30, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> The page itself is interesting, as is some of the related discussion on
> the talk page. I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security
> theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not
> much else. It's the Internet, after all, and anyone can edit. Under the
> current scheme, the best we can do is try to revert and prevent bad
> behavior alone. Attempting to ban individuals has proved impossible.


There exist people with actual restraining orders against editing; as
I understand it, that's the escalation step after this.


- d.

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