On 6/15/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/15/07, Kat Walsh <kat(a)mindspillage.org>
wrote:
I realize this is a minority opinion and I've
been outnumbered on it
before, but there it is. If I were not completely open about who I am
on this site, and did want to maintain anonymity, I would probably
want to be using TOR myself.
Kat, the issue of editing with proxies is different from wanting to be
an admin and carry on using them. We have issues with users running
more than one admin account, and one of the ways they're allegedly
doing this is by using open proxies. Being able to log an admin's real
IP address is the only tiny bit of accountability the Foundation has
regarding admins.
I don't actually think it's very different, editing and being an
admin. Admins do not have much technical power beyond that of ordinary
editors; what they do have could just as easily be abused by someone
editing from a public library, cybercafe, or other public terminal,
and yet we don't ban those accounts from becoming admins.
-Kat
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