2008/6/4 jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com:
In practice, soft-blocking proxies is the same as not blocking them at all. On the CheckUser list there is considerable opposition to what appears to be a unilateral over-riding of both local and meta policy, creating a new policy that might work for a little edited wiki but would not be appropriate at all on wiki-en. I encourage the developers to ensure that this change has wide acceptance at the local level and support from the Foundation before implementing.
Seconded. Just blithely switching this on for en:wp is an astonishingly bad idea.
- d.