2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett <[email protected]>:
> 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.

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


Yep. Tor is marvellous in theory, but in practice on en:wp it's a
firehose of sewage, per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad
Theory.


- d.

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