[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Joe Szilagyi]

On 6/16/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So it's a question of poor
> judgment as much as the issue of open proxies.


Actually, it's a question of whether Jay publically dropping an atom bomb
with this information on the RFA is a violation of the trust mistakenly
given him by the community. It's no accident that half the CheckUser rumors
and allegations of abuse swirl about Jay. But you defend him--just like, how
did you know that Kelly Martin had checkusered YOU that time? Unless someone
told you info on who ran what Checkuser, but you aren't supposed to have
checkuser info like that, are you, Sarah? Or if no one told you, how did
Kelly happen to get reported to the Ombudsman, for checks that supposedly
are a dime a dozen?

The real issue here isn't proxies. Ban them all quietly as found, and then
done deal. Dropping this on an RFA to sink it is WRONG. If proxies on admins
are such a big pet issue with you, Sarah, why not have compulsory checkusers
on ALL standing admins? If one is using open proxies, let's tell the whole
community. Like Jay himself did to poor Charlotte. If they are--they lose
their bits. Immediately. That includes admins, b'cats, stewards, anyone.
Would that be acceptable? If not, why not? I would like to see whether you
stand by what you have been advocating.

If we're going to humiliate people on the premise of zero tolerance, let's
hold admins already in place to the same standards.

Would you yourself, Slim--and Jay, too--agree to an immediate CheckUsering,
and if you are using proxies or alternate accounts, they are disclosed, and
if you used proxies, you lose your bits (all of them)?

Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com