The idea being instead of blocking malicious people or doing automated detection, you should spend human labour to just undo them until they go away.
Early wikipedia from what i understand didn't even have a block function - instead if someone was too overwhelmingly problematic you had to find someone with server access to block the IP on the webserver level.
The idea being instead of blocking malicious people or doing automated detection, you should spend human labour to just undo them until they go away.
Early wikipedia from what i understand didn't even have a block function - instead if someone was too overwhelmingly problematic you had to find someone with server access to block the IP on the webserver level.