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==About the IP Range Blocks==
With the loss of Asirra and the rash of new account creation, I am taking an aggressive stance against spam accounts. I am blocking entire ip range of a provider (found via WHOIS) when that range has been associated with multiple spam accounts, but only for 1 year as they may change over time and I don't want to have to remember to unblock them later. Only ip edits and account creation are disabled for these blocks. Existing users who login from one of these blocks (including existing spam accounts) should not be affected.
If you are a new user trying to create an account from one of the blocked ranges, I'm sorry for the headache. Users in these ip ranges ''can'' send emails or join our IRC chat to ask for help (links on the left), and we will assist legitimate users who need to create an account from those ranges. We can either setup the account for you with a dummy password which you can change afterwards, or temporarily unblock the range so you can do it yourself.
This plan is possibly too aggressive, I guess we'll find out. If you have a better plan, start a discussion on my talk page and maybe I'll do that instead.
==About me==
I am one of the admins here, and make crazy templates.
