On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 16:33 -0400, Derric Atzrott wrote: > > So then blocking Tor is intended to block people that temporarily have > > access to large amounts of unblocked IP addresses, but usually are IP > > blocked? > > > > Who does this apply to? If a vandal has access to unblocked IP addresses > > to make accounts, they can just use those to edit or sockpuppet. > > So I don't actually administer blocks on English Wikipedia, and I am not > an editor on any other language Wikipedias, but on English Wikipedia this > is what I understand the process to be. > > When a user acts up and has an account we temporarily block that account. > If they decided to create another account we usually block the new account > permanently and hard-block the IP address that they are accessing the site > from. This prevent them from making a new account or sockpuppeting while > logged out. Most users don't evade blocks, so this tends to work pretty > well. > > With Tor unblocked a significant minority of those users who had their > IP > address hard-blocked will use Tor to create new accounts and continue > to cause problems. With Tor blocked they have to find another means. > Some of them do, but most of them give up. Its a war of attrition. > We know that problematic people /will/ find a way to cause a problem, > we just make it expensive enough that they get bored and don't bother. With Tor soft-blocked, this problem goes away. What am I missing? -- Sent from Ubuntu
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