[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Andrew Gray]

On 19/06/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:

> Slim Virgin's comment reflects the sort of paranoid attitude that
> really needs to be countered. Is there any evidence whatsoever that
> inactive sysops are actually creating a problem? If there's no
> evidence of a problem, what exactly would desysopping them fix?

Half a dozen inactive admin accounts have been cracked and used for
vandalism, though one presumes that the same problem would have
occured had they been active but not logged in at the time. One "went
rogue" a few months after leaving, with a spate of vandalism, but was
dealt with.

So, yes, but nothing significant in the long term.

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- Andrew Gray
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