https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44759
--- Comment #9 from Robert Horning <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > Adding yet another block when the block was done in error just increments > > the block count even further. > > Right. So perhaps alternate solutions (such as auto-expunging block logs > after > several years) would be better to look at here. > > > Perhaps this should be solved socially, but adding an annotation into the > > logs > > seems like a prudent thing to do. > > Hmm, you've lost me. An additional 1-second block _is_ an annotation. > Note that the 1-second block is recorded as a block. It is saying that whatever it is that the user was doing is seen as something that should be blocked and thus has a negative connotation for potentially ramping up additional much longer blocks than what a user would be getting for doing essentially the same thing. Yes, this is a social thing, and perhaps "administrators" should be better educated about looking carefully at the record logs before they do knee jerk reactions and performing perma-blocks on users effectively banning them from Wikipedia altogether. As for preserving records indefinitely.... that is a whole separate issue that has no relevance here and is a huge can of worms better taken to the Village Pump and to the Wikimedia Commons as well as other mailing lists. I think you would have a raging discussion on your hand if you start to suggest anything be deleted from any of the logs. It is irrelevant because the reasons why an administrator would be marking the log would not be present several years later with extraordinary exceptions. Regardless, the resistance I'm seeing here is simply because there is a hammer that can be used like a screwdriver, thus you think there is no need for a screwdriver. It gets the job done, but it is a less than elegant solution. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
