Forum:Throttling back sockpuppet creation

A determined vandal over on Wookieepedia keeps on creating sock puppets. Initially, he created a series of new accounts for page move vandalism, but recent changes have restricted new users from large-scale page moving. He's apparently gone and made a lot of stealth accounts, all variants of the username "Crumb", possibly in order to wait until they are no longer flagged as "new" so he can do what he wants (though I think page moves have been slowed down for all registered users who aren't admins, so an individual sockpuppet couldn't do too much damage before being banned.) He's up to over 400 puppet accounts now. Perhaps we goaded him on by preemptively banning his obvious socks, but that's as may be.

I was going to ask if there's any way to limit the number of new accounts created by a single IP address in a day, until I realized that this person is using a dynamic IP address so that wouldn't do anything. (Though I am curious to know if blocked IPs are still allowed to register usernames, even if they are blocked from actually editing.) So, I guess now I'm wondering if anything can be done to slow this sort of thing down. Thanks, &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * All usernames including "crumb" are blocked. There's a way to limit the number of accounts an IP can make in a day. I thought it was set to 10, but I'll ask Jason to check that's still on. I don't know of a way to stop banned IPs creating new accounts. Angela (talk) 05:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)