As I understand it, any admin logging in from a possibly non secure terminal is supposed to use either the ip address or an alternative user name. DGG
On 7/4/07, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Steve Summit,
zetawoof wrote:
It's for the exact same reason, just in reverse: If an apparently good-faith contributor is using an anonymizing service like TOR, it's impossible to detect that they're also trolling (or whatever) from their actual IP.
But we don't use checkuser to detect that apparently good-faith contributors are trolling or sockpuppeting or whatever. We use it in an attempt to confirm that apparently bad-faith editors are.
Hear, hear. "I hold in my hand the names of 205 administrators who are also trolling as IP addresses!"
If I'm a troll/puppetmaster with different accounts from this IP, you have no way of knowing ... because you have no reason to check. Zetawoof seems to be proposing that we check all users to ensure they aren't running multiple accounts[0]. Zetawoof's Wikipedia is not a Wikipedia to which I would wish to contribute.
[0] Which is not, in itself, a violation of policy or the Right Thing.
-- Mark Gallagher "'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend."
- P G Wodehouse, /Carry On, Jeeves/
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