[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Gabe Johnson]

On 6/17/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/07, Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > jayjg wrote:
> >
> > The underlying question here is, if someone with checkuser repeatedly
> > sees the same user editing from open proxies, is there any
> > responsibility for the checkuser to notify the user that they are in
> > violation of policy? Or is it acceptable to simply block the proxy and
> > allow the user to continue? And for how long? At what point should
> > seeing a user repeatedly violating policy provoke a response from
> > someone with checkuser status?
>
> I have no idea what the policy or practice is; it has certainly never
> been written up.
>
> > If you see via the Checkuser facility that someone is repeatedly
> > violating NOP, do you *ever* do anything more than block the proxy? If
> > so, what? and when?
>
> It depends entirely upon the situation. If they're obvious vandals or
> the like, then I block them as well as blocking the proxy.
>

So, you trust non-problematic users to use open proxies, but not
admins to? (This is a valid stance; I'm just trying to clarify.) ~~~~
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