And any kind of account creation block will cause issues with users who work across multiple projects as SUL auto account creation is also blocked.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:57 AM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
Uh, Creating sleeper accounts from good IPs lettting them go stale beyond CU retention, and you have an infinite number of accounts you can then use to skip past the softblocks on tor and create havoc. Anything short of a hard block wont stop open proxy abuse.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Jackmcbarn jackmcbarn@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjorsch@wikimedia.org
wrote:
One simple solution would be to disallow IP edits via Tor, i.e. softblock[1] all Tor exit nodes instead of hardblocking them.
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Setting_block_option...
I'd agree with this. I've never understood why we even hardblock open proxies at all instead of just softblocking with account creation disabled. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l