David Gerard wrote:
On 18/06/07, Eagle 101 eagle.wikien.l@gmail.com wrote:
The primary reason for blocking proxies of any kind is to make sock puppetry very difficult.
Not really - the primary reason is that open proxies are overwhelmingly used for vandalism and trolling, not merely sockpuppetry (though that too).
Sure. But this still begs the question, that we've been dancing around for a couple of days: is it the case that if a sysadmin leaves a proxy open, we will block *it*, or that if a Wikipedia editor uses an open proxy, we will block *him* (or her)?
Is a good-faith user of an open proxy guilty of anything? (Some will and have already said "yes", but is that the right answer?)