On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 15:50 -0400, Derric Atzrott wrote: > > this is extremely interesting--thank you! but would this work for Tor, > > since presumably the IPs that are blocked are those of the exit relays? > > > > I am proposing keeping the IPs blocked but opening them up for certain > > logged-in accounts--I don't know if that is technically possible, but it > > seems like a narrower solution, and also theoretically less open to > > abuse/spoofing than unblocking entire IP addresses. (maybe.) > > I think you may have misunderstood. An IP Block Exemption is a flag > applied to a specific account that allows it to ignore IP blocks. > > There are two types of blocks that we use for IP addresses, hard blocks > and soft blocks. A hard block means that if you are using that IP address > you cannot edit Wikipedia. A soft block means that if you are using that > IP address, you can edit Wikipedia, but only if logged in, and you cannot > make an account. Many highschools are soft-blocked. All of Tor is hard- > blocked. Having the IPBE flag on your account allows you to treat all > hard-blocks as though they are soft-blocks. 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. -- Sent from Ubuntu
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