On 30 September 2014 15:46, Derric Atzrott datzrott@alizeepathology.com wrote:
Okay, so I have to ask. What is this obsession with enabling TOR
editing?
It's the most well-known of the anonymizers and probably has the most traffic.
I suspect it's the most well known anonymizer amongst a limited group of technically knowledgeable people. There is an absolute proliferation of anonymizing services out there today, many with millions of users, and stunningly inexpensive ones are regularly advertised in mainstream media.
I don't have the imagination to try to come up with an overall solution, although I agree that IP/IP range-specific blocking is becoming increasingly problematic as these systems proliferate. IPv6 notwithstanding, we're shutting off an ever-increasing percentage of internet users from participating because of the behaviour of a comparatively few commercially- or philosophically-driven problem editors. Unfortunately, with our limited human resources (what with everyone being volunteers, and most editors just editing), it doesn't take a lot of problem editors to overwhelm our resources.
Risker/Anne