On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 21:07, Charles Podles wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
207.44.154.35 is the popular anonymous proxy
http://www.anonymization.net,
and as such is used by lots of different vandals. Anonymous proxies are
regularly used for vandalism, and once we block one, the vandal just moves
to another one. On meta recently we've had a bot operating to vandalise tens
of articles, via an anonymous proxy.
Would there be any objections to systematically blocking all anonymous
proxies on a site-wide basis?
Are there any *valid* uses for anonymizing proxies, or are they used
only to vandalize,
troll, and dodge hard bans? Can anyone think of a situation in which
someone might have
a legitimate purpose for such a tool? Since I can't, I wouldn't object
to a permanent block
of any and all anonymous proxy services.
--Charles Podles (en:User:Mirv)
At the absolute least, people using an anonymous proxy should get a
read-only version of the Wikipedia with a notice saying that they're
missing the full functionality through using their proxy. Perhaps they
could also edit talk pages, although those can also be abused.