Wikipedia:Abuse response/172.x.x.x


 * sole contrib, 12:34, 11 May 2007, reads in part: "No, you let me tell YOU something, faggot. [...] Pedophiles deserve to have their throats slit from EAR to EAR, and then to burn in hell forever if there is one." (Given a warning and 24-hour block for this, which has already expired.)
 * sole contrib, 04:53, 12 May 2007, reads in part: "You sir, are a living piece of shit [...] A slow, horrible death would be to good for you" (Warned and blocked 48 hours)
 * sole contrib, 05:16, 12 May 2007, reads in part: "I'm going to tell you one more time to get off Jimbo's page, faggot bitch." (Warned and blocked 24 hours)

Note: these were all three in the same section of User talk:Jimbo Wales and appear to be the same user, on AOL's switching IPs. Under the circumstances, neither the warnings nor the blocks seem likely to have any effect. Could AOL be asked to drop this user for the death threats? -- Ben &ensp; TALK/HIST 05:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Discussion:


 * AOL has been completely unresponsive in the past. I highly doubt anything can be done about this. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Additionally, I would add that if only these 3 ips, and the three contribs coming from them, are the only ones like this, it's truly not worth the effort to try to report abuse to the ISP. There's certainly been much, much worse abuse from AOL than this. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I doubt it will stop here, it may not even have begun here, this is just what I saw in one small section of User talk:Jimbo Wales. What more will be discovered there, or elsewhere, is more than I know. But such death threats go well beyond the "graffiti-tagging" sort of vandalism, and I'd hope would get more serious attention. -- Ben &ensp; TALK/HIST 05:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The instructions at the top of this page ask that editors adding names "make sure that the IP in question has been blocked at least five times in recent history, or the request will be rejected". The volume of edits is very low here and isn't over a long period of time. I think your concern is unlikely to get attention here, and would be better off on another incidents-related page. Dekimasu よ! 07:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * From AOL, the volume of edits from any particular IP address will always be very low. AOL hands out a new IP address to the same user upon each page request. Administrator Alison for example has been whack-a-moling an AOL vandal fixated on penises, who vandalizes from several IP addresses per day (this vandal also vandalizes talk pages of anyone who tries to leave him a warning). Not sure what to do about this except maybe get AOL's attention by blocking huge swaths of their range. -Amatulic 21:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No. AOL finally implemented XFF headers for wikimedia projects which means that the IP will only change each connect, not each page load like it does with their caching proxies. &mdash;Crazytales talk/desk 11:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Not enough activity to justify a report. --User: (talk) 18:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)