[WikiEN-l] To have or to have not power -- "giggle," "giggle"

[Gwern Branwen]

On  0, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> scribbled:
[3~>
> Gee, what was I thinking:
>
> Optional question from SlimVirgin
> 4. Hi, ABF. Can you say why you're editing via open proxies?
> SlimVirgin (talk) 09:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Armedblowfish
>
> Not surprising simply another diversion for the real issue: the
> information IS private, only those with check user tools do have
> access to it.
>
> So, what other information is private, but isn't private because those
> with check user tools can reveal it at will, and will do or
> desperately say anything to limit discussion of their revealing this
> privately gained information, privately gained while they are held in
> a  position of trust, armed with tools that reveal this information?
>
> Slim Virgin asked the question, either it was already openly known
> that Armedblowfish edited through open proxies or Slim Virgin revealed
> it.  Take your pick, it doesn't change the first set of questions.
> Nothing you Jay or Slim have attempted to use to gloss over answering
> it has done that.
...
> KP

It was the former. Armedblowfish (and myself to a much lesser extent) were hit hard when Jayg and company recently cracked down on TOR nodes, and had often gone around complaining about it both on and off-wiki.

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gwern
(M56) Field Security Division (M52) Al Amn al-Askari Supreme Assembly of the
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