Re:A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians
by FireBeyond on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:53PM
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"(b) I have never seen a good edit from a TOR endpoint. Ever."
I guess I should trash a lot of my 5000+ Wikipedia edits, then...
"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."
That's pretty horrifically self-serving.
I've edited through Tor. Feel pretty comfortable saying I wasn't spammy, and certainly not evading a block or vandalizing.
Fact is, checkuser is used for verification of accounts already acting abusively. So of course the subset of accounts acting abusively, suspected of being sock puppets, who is ALSO on Tor is going to be at or near 100%. You've already self-selected your sample.
Although WR (Wikipedia Review) has passed its heyday, and certainly had its share of "troublesome" users, they also were responsible for calling out a lot of problematic behavior from those revered at Wikipedia, such as Coren:
I guess I should trash a lot of my 5000+ Wikipedia edits, then...
"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."
That's pretty horrifically self-serving.
I've edited through Tor. Feel pretty comfortable saying I wasn't spammy, and certainly not evading a block or vandalizing.
Fact is, checkuser is used for verification of accounts already acting abusively. So of course the subset of accounts acting abusively, suspected of being sock puppets, who is ALSO on Tor is going to be at or near 100%. You've already self-selected your sample.
Although WR (Wikipedia Review) has passed its heyday, and certainly had its share of "troublesome" users, they also were responsible for calling out a lot of problematic behavior from those revered at Wikipedia, such as Coren:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=24588