On 2/19/07, Mark E <mark(a)edwards.org> wrote:
I see. Block Tor exit nodes. Translated: "Punish
10's of thousands of
college students, business users, and ISP customers, because of the
actions of one or two people." Uh, ya.
Are there tens of thousands of college students, business users, and
ISP customers who are forced to use Tor? I'm not aware that college
campuses tend to make all their machines Tor exit nodes as a matter of
course. Chinese users, now, there you may have a case for permitting
edits from accounts, but I don't think anyone suggested banning edits
from accounts.
On 2/19/07, Kasimir Gabert <kasimir.g(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently Wikipedia blocks all anonymous edits from
Tor exit nodes.
This is not harmful to real users but protects from vandalism. You
should do the same, instead of blocking *everything* from tor exit
nodes. (Allow account creation, allow edits from accounts).
That may make sense, yes. Or allow edits from accounts but not
account creation, perhaps, so that users from China or whatnot will
have to go to a one-time effort of getting someone to create an
account for them (if you have to ask an admin, it's going to be rather
difficult to pile up dozens of sleeper accounts). But that might be
too harsh, depending on the wiki.