Trust and Safety Product 1/2: Getting Better at Blocking Bad Activity on the Wikis
William Brown, Kosta Harlan
The Wikis rely heavily on IP blocking as a mechanism for blocking vandalism, spam, and abuse. But IP addresses are increasingly less useful as stable identifiers of an individual actor, and blocking IP addresses has unintended negative effects on good faith users who happen to share the same IP address as bad actors. The talk discusses approaches to improve the effectiveness of these mechanisms.
Community Health
Ohrid (9)(interpretation)