[Foundation-l] Ipblock exempt proposal for en wiki

[Chad]

As much as I am in favor of such a change in policy, I do not see it happening
anytime soon. The en.wiki community has become overly paranoid recently,
and it seems that a mentality of us vs. them has slowly descended. This is
a bad thing. Due to this paranoia, there will always be a group who will be
convinced that anonymous editing from proxies is bad, period, end of story.
They see no good coming from someone wishing to better preserve their
anonymity.

This mentality must change before any process can move forward.

Chad

On Jan 14, 2008 6:45 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 6:35 PM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Why is this being posted to this list?
> [snip]
> > It's affecting only enwiki. Enwiki has its own mailing list.
>
> He multi-casted it.
>
> In any case, The ability of people behind anonoymization proxies to
> edit the largest project is of interest to foundation folks.
>
>
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