2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun.
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of a shame, though.
Yep. Tor is marvellous in theory, but in practice on en:wp it's a firehose of sewage, per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
- d.