On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:17 AM, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
In practice, soft-blocking proxies is the same as not blocking them at all.
My understanding is that the primary problem with tor is page-move vandals such as the user known as 'Grawp'. These were the main objections to the extension that came from my discussions with CheckUsers and stewards. In response to this, I implemented the additional restrictions on tor users becoming autoconfirmed. A number of CheckUsers were happy with this compromise, but apparently, I didn't speak to enough of them.
On the CheckUser list there is considerable opposition to what appears to be a unilateral over-riding of both local and meta policy, creating a new policy that might work for a little edited wiki but would not be appropriate at all on wiki-en. I encourage the developers to ensure that this change has wide acceptance at the local level and support from the Foundation before implementing.
Of course, the extension can always be disabled for further development, but I do encourage those who oppose the use of this extension to think about alternative treatment of tor by the software (similar to the expanded autoconfirm limits), rather than simply hard-blocking tor.