Tor Proxies and You
In light of recent accusations, we have taken a measure to prevent people from hiding the identity of sock puppet accounts. For those unaware, TheOnionRouter (or Tor as they usually abbreviate it, lacking all caps) is a system through which anyone can quickly and easily do two things:
That second point is obviously the one that affects us the most on the Sift because someone could login through one random proxy/relay identity to submit a video then change to a different one to create a new account and upvote their own video, leaving all traces of this tomfoolery undetectable.
In order to prevent such maliciousness, any Sift users anonymizing their location via a Tor proxy is no longer permitted to login or register. This change is effective now.
(For the record, the recent accounts accused of sock puppetry never used a Tor-anonymized IP address.)
- Hide your true IP address and thus your identity
- Change your apparent IP address with the click of a mouse so you can seem like a different person
That second point is obviously the one that affects us the most on the Sift because someone could login through one random proxy/relay identity to submit a video then change to a different one to create a new account and upvote their own video, leaving all traces of this tomfoolery undetectable.
In order to prevent such maliciousness, any Sift users anonymizing their location via a Tor proxy is no longer permitted to login or register. This change is effective now.
(For the record, the recent accounts accused of sock puppetry never used a Tor-anonymized IP address.)
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gwiz665Well done. *quality
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MarineGunrockCool!
rottenseedsooo...we're not supposed to place onions close to our router or what?
gorgonheap>> ^rottenseed:
sooo...we're not supposed to place onions close to our router or what?
No moron, were supposed to use onions AS our router.
Dumba$$
lucky760Not quite sure. I tried finding info on TheOnion.com but all they have is weird news stories. (And for some unknown reason the anchor desk shot is always fuzzy and dark.)
MINKbest thing you've done for ages, lucky
nice one. yeah that's a veiled insult, but anyway, big ups on this one. credit where credit's due.
choggieyessir, these children need spankings...
blankfist>> ^siftbot:
I think Lucky needs all the help he can get with stars. He's still a 100 star. Jesus! You'd think if you were the programmer of the site you'd probably cheat a bit on star points.
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Way to ruin Christmas, gwiz665. Was this what you were meaning to do? *Quality!
siftbotAwarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by blankfist.
CrosswordsHas it ever been determined if anyone has ever used a sock puppet account? It seems when these things go sift talk it invariably comes out there is no evidence other than circumstantial (unless my memory is faulty). Has this all been reds under the beds?
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
^ We've found plenty of sock puppets manually. Some have been dealt with quietly - most have been banned outright.
ant>> ^gorgonheap:
>> ^rottenseed:
sooo...we're not supposed to place onions close to our router or what?
No moron, were supposed to use onions AS our router.
Dumba$$
Oh crap. I can't stop laughing.
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