Hoi,
We have always indicated to people who were interested in this that true
anonymity can not be found in anonymous editing. We have always indicated
that anonymity will be better preserved by making use of a user handle.
As you are continuing your game of silly buggers, it is a choice to use a
user or not. If people are not troubled by sub optimal anonymity, it is
their choice. At the same time they provide us with the handles to help
fight vandals. Changing this will not help us produce more or better content
for our projects. It makes our servers less responsive so I do not think
this should have much or any priority..
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
This is becoming a nice game of silly buggers. I will bite anyway.
One reason why we should not grant access to Special:Checkuser to
everyone
is because it would have all kinds of really
nasty side effects. For one
it
would make the life of stalkers that much easier.
Giving stalkers the use
of
this tool would effectively harm first the
community and because of the
implications it would then harm the project.
Okay. So why do we give a checkuser equivalent (releasing the IPs of
unregistered users) to the entire world for something around half our
contributors?
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