Good point; I hadn't thought of that. What if we made some sort of semi-soft IP block that allowed accounts to edit only if they had fresh CheckUser data from a non-blocked IP, or something along those lines?
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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
