On 2/19/07, Mark E mark@edwards.org wrote:
I see. Block Tor exit nodes. Translated: "Punish 10's of thousands of college students, business users, and ISP customers, because of the actions of one or two people." Uh, ya.
Are there tens of thousands of college students, business users, and ISP customers who are forced to use Tor? I'm not aware that college campuses tend to make all their machines Tor exit nodes as a matter of course. Chinese users, now, there you may have a case for permitting edits from accounts, but I don't think anyone suggested banning edits from accounts.
On 2/19/07, Kasimir Gabert kasimir.g@gmail.com wrote:
Currently Wikipedia blocks all anonymous edits from Tor exit nodes. This is not harmful to real users but protects from vandalism. You should do the same, instead of blocking *everything* from tor exit nodes. (Allow account creation, allow edits from accounts).
That may make sense, yes. Or allow edits from accounts but not account creation, perhaps, so that users from China or whatnot will have to go to a one-time effort of getting someone to create an account for them (if you have to ask an admin, it's going to be rather difficult to pile up dozens of sleeper accounts). But that might be too harsh, depending on the wiki.