On 19/06/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
If someone became suspicious that something odd was going on with a particular article and ran a checkuser on all the contributors
Is that routinely done? I was under the impression that checkuser was applied only to specific users about whom suspicions had arisen.
Pretty much. My use of it tends to be assisting other admins in tracking long-term trolls. (One of whom is an utterly reliable open proxy canary. Now if only he would get bored and go away ...)
That said, checking Tor IPs is a pretty reliable way of spotting trouble quickly. Because the good editors (Charlotte Webb, Armed Blowfish) going through them really are the exceptions, sadly.
"We are blocking Tor as a firehose of sewage." "WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM!" "Guess we must just be like that."
the best they could find is that lots of people are using TOR, but if we allow people to use TOR then it is quite a leap to assume that it is just one person using TOR.
That's why I've been musing about the possibility of changing the current If you edit using TOR or open proxies, you run the risk of being falsely accused as a sockpuppet.
"bad-faith editor", I suggest.
- d.