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 <jackmcb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > bjor...@wikimedia.org > > 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 > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
