On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in
> the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
> taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort,
> which is apparently not too fun.
>
> It looks like the current settings don't generally restrict various
> actions to a logged-in user when accessing through Tor; is there any
> objection to tightening this up to restrict edits, account creations,
> etc via Tor except when the account is explicitly excepted?

If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of
a shame, though.

-- 
Andrew Garrett

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