On 8/17/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/17/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)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).