[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Steve Summit]

Slim Virgin wrote:
>On 6/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Perhaps we should focus on that question: do we want any kind of
>>> minimum accountability from admins, or do we not care who they are, or
>>> that one person might easily be controlling multiple admin accounts?
>>
>> I'd support requiring admins to provide their real identity to the
>> foundation.
>
> I'm not sure that would help...
>
> As I see it, what we need to start doing as a minimum, is stop
> promoting people who've spent a few months hitting revert every few
> seconds. That kind of profile tells us nothing about the person, and
> it's too easy to build up several accounts that way.

Absolutely.  If we're concerned about rogue (not rouge) admins,
we've got to make some serious attempts at fixing RfA.  We
shouldn't waste time mucking around with halfhearted semitechnical
"fixes" such as banning the use of proxies (which wouldn't slow a
determined "stealth" editor-cum-admin down at all, but would
inconvenience lots of bona-fide editors.)

If RfA could somehow focus more on personal issues like trust
and reputation, and less on gauntlet-running and hoop-jumping,
we could solve a whole bunch of problems at once.