Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150816211900/@comment-4845243-20150817045256

1) Some people do use ToR for valid reasons.

2) If said person was identified as a troll and blocked, then I fail to see the problem or the need for a new rule.

Why do you think such trolling is necessarily worse because they use ToR? What about using ToR justifies a heavier block than trolling without ToR? What's the reasoning here?

Also, the only way you know if someone is using ToR is by checking the chat connect log or by running a CU of their account. Both of these should only be done when there is evidence of sock puppetry abuse. Such situations are rather rare - before today no admins had used CU in over a month. The rare circumstances under which this rule would be used to not justify it.

Instead, all we need to do is block them for trolling. If a CU is necessary and it results in finding out they use ToR, we as CUs must recognize that this is a dead end, or we must look for other information to indicate whose account it is (such as operating system). There is no justification for a heavier block based on use of ToR.