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.
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