On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Jason Williams wrote:
> [[User:MyPasswordIsHELLO]] - I think this user account should
> be deleted, since it subverts the user account system.
Hmm. The existence of this account would seem to make banning people
impossible, since anyone could sign in under this name and make edits.
However, I suspect that the intention of whoever made the account was to
enable people to make truly anonymous edits. Simply not signing in at all
would probably allow one to do this for a while, but people might
eventually spot the pattern in one's edits and work out which IP address
corresonds to which user.
I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of anonymous edits myself,
because of the difficulty in contacting contributors to check things with
them. However, if there is a consensus that anonymous edits are a good
idea, there could perhaps be a new check box on the "Edting" page, saying,
"Make this edit anonymous". I'm not necessarily recommending this, but I
suppose it might come in useful if someone wants to make a valid
contribution which they nevertheless would rather not be associated with.
Oliver
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| Oliver Pereira |
| Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science |
| University of Southampton |
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