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

[K P]

On 6/17/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Asking someone first is indeed a good first step, but I fail to see what the
> > "good reason" for forbidding it would be. As long as the user isn't hiding
> > behind the proxy to get away with edit warring and such there's no reason we
> > should disallow it. (Is there evidence of any editing abuse?)
>
> But that's the whole point - there won't be any evidence of abuse even
> if she's the worst edit warrer ever since all the evidence would be
> hidden by the fact that she's using TOR. We have no way to know if
> she's hiding behind it or using it legitimately, and that's why it is
> banned.
>
In addition, I believe this issue was debated before the policy made.

KP