2007/2/18, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com>om>:
2007/2/18, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx(a)gmail.com>om>:
Anybody can briefly tell me what's going on?
Why IP numbers aren't blocked for creating accounts and for anonymous
users\
only?
Well, I just got an explanation for that:
1. Official foundation policy is that open proxies are blocked
* Why for logged in users?
2. Any change from that should work and have no negative consequences
3. This change does not work because people in
countries with these IP
still
cannot work on WikipediaNL
4. This change has the negative side effect that people can create a
sockpuppet and use an open IP to edit from their sock puppet, which makes
sock puppets less easy to detect.
* where is 'Assume good faith' ?
Do I agree with this? No. But I'm not a sysop, so my voice don't count. And
if I were a sysop, probably anything I do would be
considered wheel
warring,
with me voluntarily giving up sysop powers being the most likely outcome.
* Always thought that sysops are for helping Wikimedians not only banning
:(
And what about explicity using normal proxy? If we do not accept
X-Forwarded-For it should bypass ban on 'invisible' proxy of the provider...
AJF/WarX