Category talk:Candidates for banning

Unfortunantly this is getting rather full, should we get a template like for admins to put on once they blocked? 10:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * and then manually remove the banned template once the ban expires? Or has the template say starting when and for how long the ban goes for, and just leave it there when ban expires? -PanSola 12:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Admins should remove the template when a user is banned and replace it with how long they are banned for. Makes it easier so other admins (mostly me, heh) don't go through and re-ban everybody. &mdash;Tanaric 16:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I think just using a normal talk page might be best. I'd rather look at a talk page and compare to the block log (which I usually look at anyway to check) than make more edits.  I am lazy.  --Fyren 20:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * We'd still have to delete people off the normal talk page. And non-sysop users doing the reporting would have additional work -- tracking down the talk page, checking to see if it's been reported, and adding the IP address. &mdash;Tanaric 20:22, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I just cleaned this out. I figure just deleting the user page with the ban request template on it after the person has been banned is easiest. --Rainith 23:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Spambot Attack
Until we can get a better solution in place, I'll be blocking all of the anon IP addresses that have been used in this recent spambot attack and have vandalized more than one page. So when you're marking a spambot for banning, note all the pages they've hit one the user page, otherwise if a page is deleted it won't show up when I check for the user's contributions. --Rainith 11:06, 28 March 2006 (CST)

Problem with IP based banning
A friend of mine contacted me today saying he was banned, he gave me the IP address listed and I found that it does not match the IP I get for him from DynDNS, 5 mins research discovered that his ISP is forcing everyone though a proxy server and the proxy server's IP (198.54.202.194) has been banned. This means that all users from South Africa that use Telkom as their ISP (90% of South Africa) will be banned. This really is a (nother) Telkom issue and not so much a guildwiki issue but I thought I would mention it. --Heurist 22:59, 22 September 2006 (CDT)