zetawoof wrote:
On 6/17/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Not quite. It's banned (as I understand it) because if editor A is editing from 12.345.678.910, and editor B is editing via TOR, and B is suspected of being A's sockpuppet, we can't say, "Aha! You're using the same IP address as A!" But it seems to me we could note that they're using TOR and block them as a sockpuppet on that basis -- *after* they're suspected/accused of being a sockpuppet.
It's for the exact same reason, just in reverse: If an apparently good-faith contributor is using an anonymizing service like TOR, it's impossible to detect that they're also trolling (or whatever) from their actual IP.
But we don't use checkuser to detect that apparently good-faith contributors are trolling or sockpuppeting or whatever. We use it in an attempt to confirm that apparently bad-faith editors are.