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Another thought: If anyone can make an account to hide their IP anyways, why not hide the IP of all users? But I guess the answer is that enough vandals don’t c
by surround 6y ago
Another thought: If anyone can make an account to hide their IP anyways, why not hide the IP of all users? But I guess the answer is that enough vandals don’t create accounts to warrant keeping IP addresses public.
- nullc 6y agoAnd other users can make an account easily enough to not bother fixing it. Probably on the balance, considering everyone's costs and risks it would be better to make IP edits private. But the decision to do this is made by Wikipedians, and considering just their costs, favours not doing it more strongly.