2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett <agarrett(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of
abuse coming via Tor in
> the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
> taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort,
> which is apparently not too fun.
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go
ahead. It's a bit of
a shame, though.
Yep. Tor is marvellous in theory, but in practice on en:wp it's a
firehose of sewage, per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad
Theory.
- d.