[WikiEN-l] The real Occam's razor and AGF: stop it before it begins

[David Goodman]

As I understand it, any admin logging in from a possibly non secure
terminal is supposed to use either the ip address or an alternative
user name. DGG

On 7/4/07, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Steve Summit,
>
> > zetawoof wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Hear, hear.  "I hold in my hand the names of 205 administrators who are
> also trolling as IP addresses!"
>
> If I'm a troll/puppetmaster with different accounts from this IP, you
> have no way of knowing ... because you have no reason to check.
> Zetawoof seems to be proposing that we check all users to ensure they
> aren't running multiple accounts[0].  Zetawoof's Wikipedia is not a
> Wikipedia to which I would wish to contribute.
>
>
> [0] Which is not, in itself, a violation of policy or the Right Thing.
>
> --
> Mark Gallagher
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>
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