On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Bawolff has it right, pretty much. For legitimate users, an IPBE can be handed out. We have very limited human resources on the projects themselves to address the issuing of tokens and IPBEs now.
For me, this is largely a philosophical argument; yes, it would be in keeping with the "everyone can edit" ethic to enable Tor editing. For a very small number of WMF projects, it might attract a greater number of editors; if the project itself wants to consider Tor editing appropriate, it would be nice to find a way to exempt that project from the general prohibition. On the other hand, for the vast majority of projects, it would attract more problems and/or require excess attention from the limited number of volunteers (ie, checkusers) who are qualified to determine if an IPBE or "Tor token" is appropriate for a specific user. On some projects, almost every single editor who has ever been found to use [not yet blocked] Tor IPs was identified as such because of a legitimate concern about that editor's behaviour.
I hope we don't (but rarely, perhaps) checkuser accounts that are behaving properly, so don't think we'd necessarily find many of the well-behaving tor users.
Of course, we find the bad behavior accounts.
Cheers, Katie
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