Eagle 101 wrote:
The primary reason for blocking proxies of any kind is to make sock puppetry very difficult.
I know that much, but my point was not about the apparent reason for this policy; it was about how such policies are adopted. When it happens in the mediawiki namespace, I question the reliability of the consensus. If the policy is a good one it should have no trouble being accepted in a more public place.
Ec
On 6/18/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Blu Aardvark wrote:
jayjg wrote:
That page was an essay. It wasn't even a guideline, and certainly not policy.
It may not have been explicit policy, but it was linked to from [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]] for some time, and if that doesn't indicate a reasonable consensus, I don't know what does.
So who ever pays a lot of attention to [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]], or, for that matter, anything on the Mediawiki namespace? How can a consensus be viewed as reliable when it appears to have developed on an obscure corner that no-one ever visits?