https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15294
Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> 2008-12-28 22:01:41 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0) > Global accounts currently cannot be blocked, so that stewards must lock users > out of their accounts to stop them. This is very user-unfriendly, as it does > not give an error message. From the user's perspective, their session simply > disappears and their password no longer works. This makes account locks > impossible to appeal or even understand for the vast majority of users, which > exacerbates the situation of false-positive or legitimate users. > > It would be very beneficial to allow stewards to block accounts, with an > appropriate you've-been-blocked message when they try to edit or create/unify > local accounts. > So far as I know, locking was always intended to be temporary until blocking of global accounts could be implemented in a manner similar to global blocking of IPs. What are the chances that Andrew's GlobalBlocking extension can be modified to do users as well? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
