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Exactly. With an IP, it can be pretty easy to stop someone from doing anything - block one IP (maybe a small range for IPv6), and maybe another for their phone
by Jap2-0 6y ago
Exactly. With an IP, it can be pretty easy to stop someone from doing anything - block one IP (maybe a small range for IPv6), and maybe another for their phone, and then block account creation from those IPs (I'm a bit rusty on the technical details of how that works - if it's something that happens automatically when blocking an IP, or is separate, or I think I heard something about doing it based on a cookie at one point). No such luck with Tor.
- nullc 6y agoThe kind of dedicated habitual abuser bawolff is talking about will also use an endless series of free/cheap VPSes an VPN services, at least the subset of ones that might also use tor. So yes, letting them get away with tor some will let them in a little more, but not a huge qualitative change to not allowing them to do so. Not allowing the access, however, blocks a significant amount of legitimate contributions too.