And any kind of account creation block will cause issues with users who work across multiple projects as SUL auto account creation is also blocked.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:57 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh, Creating sleeper accounts from good IPs lettting them go stale beyond > CU retention, and you have an infinite number of accounts you can then use > to skip past the softblocks on tor and create havoc. Anything short of a > hard block wont stop open proxy abuse. > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < >> [email protected] >> > wrote: >> >> > One simple solution would be to disallow IP edits via Tor, i.e. >> > softblock[1] all Tor exit nodes instead of hardblocking them. >> > >> > >> > [1]: >> > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Setting_block_options >> > >> I'd agree with this. I've never understood why we even hardblock open >> proxies at all instead of just softblocking with account creation >> disabled. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
