Could we start a new thread about this issue?
I don't think it's worth blocking over a billion people to stop a few vandals and sockpuppets.
2007/8/12, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 11/08/07, J.L.W.S. The Special One hildanknight@gmail.com wrote:
Open proxies (such as Tor nodes) used to be softblocked, but recently, hardblocking of open proxies has become the norm. This needs to change.
Not going to happen. Soft-blocked open proxies are a firehose of vandalism. en:wp recently had a rogue admin, User:Runcorn, who was making hard blocks into soft ones so their sockpuppets could go wild through them. (The same user is still, I think, an admin on en:wikiquote, only because there isn't actually any procedure to remove the sysop bit involuntarily from people on en:wq.)
- d.
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