On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I agree.
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