On 6/18/07, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/18/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, as CW had never been banned, and plenty
of admins with check
user tools knew she had an open proxie, she might not have expected it
would be a cause to sink her RfA, or that it was banned for her to do
so.
As far as I know 3 checkusers knew of it, but CW would *have no way of
knowing that*. I'm not sure why people are spinning ever more fanciful
yarns about CW's ignorance of this policy, in the face of nearly
irrefutable evidence that CW was well aware of it.
This isn't a fanciful tale supposing CW's ignorance of the "no open
proxies" policy. What it is a comment about her expectations or not
of being allowed to use it. Why wouldn't she know that they would
show up in check user? It's one of the few things even, I, a web
idiot can figure out, that other editors using the same IP will show
up in check user checks.
So, yes, in all likelihood she knew that her TOR showed up in check
user requests, if she knew they were banned, and knew that hers had
been seen and was not banned.
There's nothing fanciful here at all, or fabulous.
After all, she is a registered user who uses open
proxies and has
not been banned or told not to use them.
That doesn't even logically follow. Armedblowfish wasn't banned for
using TOR proxies either, but it was also made clear that there would
be no exceptions made for him using them, he would have to edit from
real IPs
Yes, it does logically follow that she has been allowed to use them,
so she might not expect to be torpedoes for using them. I saw the
question about the open proxies but didn't follow the result that
blowfish was told he couldn't use them. Still, CW was allowed to edit
from open proxies, probably knew she was allowed to edit from them, at
least 3 admins know she edits from them, and no one blocked her or
made mention of them until it came to her RfA.
It seems unlikely had she actually looked at this
she would have been
so stunned at being asked it in her own RfA.
No, what seems unlikely are the increasingly fabulous tales being
advanced here regarding CW's complete ignorance of this policy, and
the inappropriateness of using proxies.
"Fabulous tales" etc., etc.
Open proxies apparently aren't all the inappropriate as registered
users in good standing are allowed to use them.
KP