Author: mapellegrini
Description:
One very characteristic in dealing with sockpuppet registrations is that they're often registered from the same IP, sometimes on consecutive days. It would be helpful for people with checkuser access to be able to access a special page which lists IP addresses that have maxed out their daily account registrations.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Actually, a page to list any users with high account registrations that are affected by the rate limiter would be nice.
Probably some HEAP table would nice for this. At the moment the data is decentralized in a much of IP cache keys.
Per comment #2, the number of recent creations are shown for "get users". This is fairly light-weight and not too "fishing-like". Done in r39242
mapellegrini wrote:
If I am understanding what's been changed, this isn't what this request was for. Although it could potentially be helpful, I don't want the checkuser results to display maxed out IPs for one (or a small number of) IPs. Therefore, I'm re-opening this bug.
I want a separate special page - [[special:maxed_ips]] , accessible only by people with checkuser access - which lists all IPs that have recently maxed out on the number of accounts they can register. The page should also list the accounts they have registered recently.
The whole purpose is to spot likely problem IPs and registered accounts without having to run a checkuser on the individual IP. That way, you go to [[special:Maxed IPs]], see that 67.54.3.29 has registered HITLER1, HITLER2, HITLER3, etc, and block them before they can cause any damage.
Yes, but this like too much of a "fishing expedition". In that vein, I'll have to close it.