User talk:68.233.214.74/IP editors and wikihate

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IPs are people too.

Deal with it. Not being registered apparently means you get lots of wikihate.

This wikihate is even just subtle harshness (see here) It felt like a borderline WP:CIV case. This is part of the post:

I don't know whether I agree that unregistered editors should have the same privileges as registered editors. I think that they should not. Among other things, many unregistered editors have two mistaken ideas. The first is that they preserve their privacy better by editing from an IP address than by editing with a pseudonym. They do not.

This was very little actual hate, but I felt discriminated against. Why? Because he was being condescending because I'm an IP. My feelings were that it was unnecessarily harsh. We need to argue for IP's rights. Copied from my post at WT:DRN:

I like editing from an Ip; I don't like feeling like no one appreciates an Ip editor. I don't want to be harassed by vandals, so I don't create an account. Does this mean my voice doesn't count? Because it sure feels like it. I can't participate as a volunteer here, I can't write for the signpost, etc. I technically can, but no one wants me to.

Policies apply to conversations between registered and unregistered users too. For example, WP:CIV and WP:AGF always apply. Yet many registered users violate it when conversing with IPs for reasons like "IPs aren't people, why should we be civil to them?", or "WP:AGF doesn't apply here—this editor is an IP". (Ok, I made the examples up, and most editors are nice, but still).

Wikipedia is too busy advocating for registered editors that we forget about IPs. Remember WP:CIV, WP:AGF, and WP:BITE apply too.

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