On 10/25/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Ben Yates wrote:
There's no way to keep anonymous proxy users
blocked and let logged-in
proxy
users edit?
Some of the worst vandalbots create accounts.
Still, your point is absolutely valid in the broader sense. What
changes could be make that might allow us to mitigate the problems of
anonymous proxies in a gentler way than wholesale blocking?
Keep in mind that ideas are essentially useless, at least as compared to
simple running code. So those of us who want to get something done in
this area have a responsibility to either code it, or make sure that our
great heroes the programmers understand that their humble subjects would
be overjoyed to see something good in this area. :-)
--Jimbo
Yes, code is better than ideas, but it is my understanding that people at
Tor offered to help code up a plugin that would allow any admin to block all
Tor exit nodes for 30 minutes. Also, some users have already been working on
code to block all Tor exit nodes permanently, citing a policy against open
proxies and then listing *your name* as the person to contact. It's even
been run for a while (that's why about half the exit nodes are blocked), but
it was stopped because so many complaints were received). If I recall
correctly, you declared on this list that all open proxies should be blocked
(implying if not saying that they should be blocked permanently). Is this
how you feel about Tor?
If people are working on the code to block these proxies anyway, you're not
seriously suggesting that the people working on the code have the sole right
to determine how long the blocks should last, are you?