Well, this was back in the late 00s/early 10s. So circa 2008 - 2010. I don't remember the exact year.
I'd assume they had to make a policy against territorial editors because it was already a problem though. I definitely experienced it.
Well, this was back in the late 00s/early 10s. So circa 2008 - 2010. I don't remember the exact year.
I'd assume they had to make a policy against territorial editors because it was already a problem though. I definitely experienced it.
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
The policy had been around since late 2003.
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 1 year ago
Is there also a policy against evading blocks/bans? If there was then perhaps the subject in this article would have never happened.
Perhaps the takeaway here is that we could all learn from writing policies that would definitely solve every instance of a problem. For example, if a company could have policies against sexual harassment it could all stop.
In another example on a bigger scale, if countries would sign a treatise of some type with other peoples and nations then we could all get along far better. A great example of this could be when the US signed various treaties with different Native American Tribes such, as happens, this Wikipedia article describes.
Thank you, I believe the world could learn much from our discussion and I know, I feel that my own experiences and opinions have been rightfully invalidated.
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yes, there is. In fact SPI (sockpuppet investigations) is known as one of the hardest "jobs". You'd need pretty suspicious behavioral evidence before filing one for good reasons. Clerks need to sort through all the requests and see which ones deserve the actual IP-inspectors (CheckUsers) to check if the users seem to be the same (or an open proxy). (Don't worry, the IP address retention period is only 90 days.)