[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[Slim Virgin]

On 6/15/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain why it's against policy to edit *under an
> identifiable, logged-in username* via an anonomizer or open proxy?
>
Because you could have a dozen other user names and the checkusers
would have no way of determining it, if you used a different open
proxy each time. Of course, you could do the same thing by using
different ISPs, but it costs money and they would tend to show the
same location, at least.