Thread:BunsenH/@comment-25755405-20161114213544/@comment-24577221-20161115013216

Are you referring to a particular user or page?

There's only so much I can do. Generally, such a person runs out of conveniently-available IP addresses. If someone is persistent, I raise the matter with Wikia staff, and they try to identify entire blocks of IP addresses that that person is using. The downside of that is that it also blocks anyone else who wants to use the wiki from that block of addresses, so the problem is to find the balance between blocking the problem person and not blocking other people. That's what happened with Mfaccas; he's now blocked from several IP ranges.

It would be a problem if someone was using something like a school computer or a library computer, because there might well be other people who would like to access the same wiki from the same block, or even the same IP address. If someone ran into that situation, they would get a message about the address being blocked. At that point, they could send a message to Wikia admin to try to resolve the conflict.

So let me toss out a peer-pressure suggestion. If you know someone is using shared computer access to cause trouble on-line, it's in your interest to talk to whoever's in charge of that shared system to stop the trouble-maker, before everyone loses out.

Also, if there's a specific word or phrase or other pattern to the abuse, I can try to create a filter to block that text. In general, that's not a good solution, because people can usually find other ways of being offensive. And a filter that's really broad will also block stuff that we'd want to keep.