On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/6/5 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Is there a way to allow exempt IPs to edit through Tor anyway?
I mean exempt usernames (I believe sysops are presently immune to IP blocks, for example).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
You'll notice an extra permission under User, called torblock-unblocked, or something. All that would need to be done is for that to be reassigned to a user group given out.
However, I don't like the idea of hard-blocking tor, even when we do give out flags to people who need to use it. I maintain that we are best to come up with some other form of novel handling that balances the need to prevent vandalism with other needs.
I think that, for users who don't have a certain permission, marking tor edits as such in recentchanges would be an excellent step in that direction.