On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:
I had a discussion with FT2 on IRC a few hours ago. He
said that he
would be happy to have a soft-block, with these provisions:
1. A special page exists which allows the monitoring of recent tor
edits. Perhaps Special:Recentchanges/tor?
2. A new protection level is added, which allows tor users to be
prevented from editing an article, which, for instance, has concerns
with regard to sockpuppeting and so on.
What do others think of these?
Actually, FT2 has said that he did not, in fact, say this, and
apologizes if that was the impression you were left with.
As for me, I don't see any reason why TOR proxies should be afforded
any special consideration; like all proxies, they should be hard
banned, per policy, and developers shouldn't implement ways of
over-turning the actions of wikis that quite properly do so. On the
contrary, they should be implementing extensions that automatically
block TOR exit nodes. And I don't see any particular reason why we
should be adding layer upon layer of complexity to this scheme whose
underlying premise is fatally flawed.
I'm not sure why the IP block exemption wouldn't work for the
incredibly small number of wiki-en editors who actually have a
*legitimate* reasons to use TOR.