Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25428589-20181007231724/@comment-25428589-20181010140136

Combining the content/discussions mod rights could definitely work, and I would support that, once again with the understanding the rights are only to be used for the most obvious cases of breaking the rules (completely off-topic responses in the workshop, creating threads on the administration board, etc). You have a point about timing, and I certainly don't want to create excess work for the admins at this time, especially when so many of them are busy IRL. I'm happy to do the legwork on this when the time does come (creating a requests page, templates, CSS, etc).

DrBob, I definitely understand your point about spammers wanting that instant gratification, but I just don't think it's in the spirit of the wiki to prevent new users from contributing. The most I could possibly get behind would be preventing users aged less than a day from uploading images, but I still wince at the thought of restricting regular users to work around a select few troublemakers.

Your point about Tor is unfortunately difficult to implement. While it's true the list of exit nodes is not infinite, the list is also constantly changing. Many exit nodes are actually the computers of regular people which have been hijacked to route Tor traffic, and will disappear very quickly. The right way to block Tor is with an extension (mw:Extension:TorBlock), but unfortunately (as I've complained about before) Wikia have decided to remove this extension rather than configuring it correctly, and there's not really anything we can do about that. Thanks very much for your suggestions, though, the more people trying to tackle this, the better.