https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16860
--- Comment #9 from Jesse PW (Pathoschild) <[email protected]> 2010-04-11 10:18:04 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > Stewards were chosen though a touch election process because these things are > important, not to sit and let a bot do them. The bot doesn't act on its own, it simply automates the tedious steps when prompted by its operator. Consider the normal flow to lock and hide an account, and review its local edits: 1. Copy vandal username from RC feed. 2. Open or move focus to browser. 3. Navigate to Special:CentralAuth. 4. Set focus in name textbox. 5. Paste vandal username. 6. Press 'Enter'. 7. Wait for page to load. 8. Scroll down page. 9. Click "Account is locked from editing". 10. Click "Account is hidden from public lists". 11. Click "Other reason" menu. 12. Click "crosswiki abuse" option. 13. Click the "Set status" button. 14. CTRL + Click the edit link for every local account that has edits. 15. For each account, make sure their edits have been reverted and page creations deleted. The vandal has created five new accounts in the time it took you to do this. Set focus to RC feed, start over from step 1, and work faster next time! Compare this to a semi-automated flow: 1. Copy vandal username. 2. Type "!stabhide " and CTRL + V to paste vandal username. 3. Press 'Enter'. You're done. The vandal probably hasn't even had time to edit yet, and if he has the bot will notify you if he has unreverted edits on any wiki. Another bot will notify #wikimedia-stewards that you locked and hid an account. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
