https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28713
MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #7 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2011-04-27 00:58:26 UTC --- There are two issues here: * writing and implementing this feature; * gathering consensus on a particular wiki to set this feature in a particular way. Obviously you need to write the feature before it can be set in a particular way on a particular wiki, however there are obstacles to implementing this. MediaWiki doesn't really distinguish between an indefinite block and any other kind of block (except that ipblocks.ipb_expiry is set to "infinity" instead of a timestamp). What's to stop someone from setting a block for 100 years? Wouldn't that have the exact same effect? I don't see much virtue in adding this feature into core. Even with more restrictions (such as limiting blocks to less than a year or something), it violates MediaWiki's principle of putting trust into administrators to behave appropriately. It's easy enough to customize the message above the block form, remove the drop-down selections for longer expiries, and/or add some custom JavaScript to warn/prohibit admins from setting longer blocks, but all of these can be bypassed by a willing admin. Ultimately you need to trust that the admins will act appropriately (within community norms). If they can't or won't, they probably shouldn't be admins or you should change the societal rules surrounding who can block indefinitely. This isn't really a technical issue, it's a social issue. If there were a link that admins could accidentally click (like rollback) to indefinitely block someone and they kept tripping on it, that would be a technical (user interface) problem. As it stands, admins must consciously choose to indefinitely block someone; they can consciously choose to not do so if it's against local policy. -- 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
