Bob wrote:
so what happens if a person whois grey listed makes a valid change do they get added to whitelist.
And Tom wrote:
What would be the policy for getting added / removed from the grey/black lists?
I would say that:
0) Firstly, the grey/blacklist only takes effect when you try to save a page, unlike a .htaccess ban. 1) Grey/blacklist control is entirely manual, done by the admins. No auto-whitelisting. 2) If you're on one of the lists, the warning message that you receive when you try to save an edit should include a contact form or link to a contact form where you can say "hey, I'm a white hat!" - the admin would then explicitly whitelist their /24 block. Of course, if they were lying, splat.
I forgot to mention another thing that came up in discussion - there should probably be a "flag this page for review" link somewhere on every page. That would take you to a form that says "You have indicated that you think this page should be checked by a site administrator. Please enter the reason:" and have three boxes: reason for flassing (mandatory), name (optional) and email (optional). The submitted page would then get added to a simple queue for inspection by the site admins.
Right, I'm off out. Merry Christmas one and all!