https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46457
--- Comment #38 from Trijnstel <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #37) > >> How to find out whether an IP used by a bot is auto-blocked? > >Using the normal block message? I'm not sure what you mean. > I was thinking about bots who's maintainers are not responsive any more. We > have a couple of them running at Commons. The "normal block message" is only > shown to the user who is affected by the block, correct? As far as I am aware no one can find out whether an IP address is blocked via an autoblock anymore if you don't have the block ID, which is very bad imho. We can only find out by performing a CU on people and I would that is way more of a breach of the privacy policy then this ever was. You only saw that an IP was blocked, not *when* it was blocked, *by who*, *why* or *who else* used that IP. As said, you can't find out without knowing the block ID. You could of course try to unblock it, but if you don't want it to unblocked I don't think that's a good idea. I saw that some people said that it wasn't consistent; that it wasn't mentioned on the block log or the block list (only the block ID of autoblocked IPs are mentioned there). Of course they aren't mentioned there. If they would, you could easily see which IP matches which user. With this tiny "bug" (which I wouldn't call a bug) you only saw that an IP was blocked, but only if you knew the IP. Otherwise it was impossible to find a 'match'. Anyway, I think this should be reversed - it helped us with our work and it was in no way a breach of the privacy policy. One more thing I would like to say: all people who opposed here are very active users. It seemed to me that you would listen to them; after all we are the ones who should work with all tools. Talk to us and communicate. And not just implement a change. That would be nice. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
