On 6/18/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 0, K P kpbotany@gmail.com scribbled: [3~>
Gee, what was I thinking:
Optional question from SlimVirgin 4. Hi, ABF. Can you say why you're editing via open proxies? SlimVirgin (talk) 09:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Armedblowfish
Not surprising simply another diversion for the real issue: the information IS private, only those with check user tools do have access to it.
So, what other information is private, but isn't private because those with check user tools can reveal it at will, and will do or desperately say anything to limit discussion of their revealing this privately gained information, privately gained while they are held in a position of trust, armed with tools that reveal this information?
Slim Virgin asked the question, either it was already openly known that Armedblowfish edited through open proxies or Slim Virgin revealed it. Take your pick, it doesn't change the first set of questions. Nothing you Jay or Slim have attempted to use to gloss over answering it has done that.
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KP
It was the former. Armedblowfish (and myself to a much lesser extent) were hit hard when Jayg and company recently cracked down on TOR nodes, and had often gone around complaining about it both on and off-wiki.
-- gwern (M56) Field Security Division (M52) Al Amn al-Askari Supreme Assembly of the
Thanks for the information.
KP