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This is in a different direction than most people, but i think the "SoftSecurity" approach of early wiki sites fits. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/SoftSecurity

The idea being instead of blocking malicious people or doing automated detection, you should spend human labour to just undo them until they go away.

Early wikipedia from what i understand didn't even have a block function - instead if someone was too overwhelmingly problematic you had to find someone with server access to block the IP on the webserver level.



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