From my experience too, though I definitely appreciate Tor's
transparency/fairness compared to VPNs/other stuffs'.
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Il 30 settembre 2014 23:02:27 "Marc A. Pelletier" <[email protected]> ha
scritto:
On 09/30/2014 09:08 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
> "[H]ow can we quantify the loss to Wikipedia, and to society at large, from
> turning away anonymous contributors? Wikipedians say 'we have to
blacklist all
> these IP addresses because of trolls' and 'Wikipedia is rotting because
nobody
> wants to edit it anymore' in the same breath, and we believe these points
> are related."
I've been doing adminwork on enwiki since 2007 and I can tell give you
two anecdotal data points:
(a) Previously unknown TOR endpoints get found out because they
invariably are the source of vandalism and/or spam.
(b) I have never seen a good edit from a TOR endpoint. Ever.
A third one I can add since I have held checkuser (2009):
(c) I have never seen accounts created via TOR or that edited through
TOR that weren't demonstrably block evasion, vandalism or (most often)
spamming.
None of this is TOR-specific, the same observations apply to open
proxies in general, and the almost totality of hosted servers. Long
blocks of open proxies or co-lo ranges that time out after *years* being
blocked invariably start spewing spam and vandalism, often the very day
the block expired.
-- Marc
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