On 8/17/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/17/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
Freenode's nice enough that if you have a hostmask (only moderately
tedious to get), you can easily use Tor without any problem, and it seems to have worked out well for them. I really don't see why WP couldn't have some moderately tedious process for getting a wiki equivalent of a hostmask protecting from Tor blocks.
Perhaps such a system would also prevent "good" editors from being affected by IP range blocks aimed at somebody else using the same ISP who is being a major WP:DICK as what happened to me a few years ago.
There wasn't support for soft blocks a few years ago... the addition of that feature has been, perhaps, one of the most important improvements to MediaWiki added in recent years. ipblock-exempt would, come to think of it, be a simpler way to resolve autoblocks of constructive editors (without having to give out one's IP address).