https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16814
John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #6 from John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> 2011-04-28 15:05:50 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > On dewiki many administrators are requesting a change to the process of > > re-blocking users. It'd be useful to have a checkbox "[ ] confirm re-block" > > and > > therefor to require active confirmation when Re-blocking a user. Having a > > small > > message "<user> is already blocked. Do you want to change the settings?" > > and a > > different text on the submit button "Re-block the user with these settings" > > is > > not sufficient, as most administrators don't read the whole text when they > > block. > > > > Re-blocking without consensus or agreement of the blocking administrator is > > often regarded as rude on dewiki, therefor most administrators wish to avoid > > re-blocks by accident. > > > > Consensus on this bugreport on the Administrators'_noticeboard: > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administratoren/Notizen#Verl.C3.A4ngerung.2FVerk.C3.BCrzung_von_Sperren_.232 > > > > This was the case until recently. There was a checkbox (unchecked by default, > IIRC) which one had to check off to change block settings. I don't know what > the problem was with that - it seemed perfectly sensible to me that > 1) You would require active confirmation for something like that and > 2) You would use a checkbox in exactly that manner to do it > > So, probably it is a simple revert of whatever commit changed that. r43870? -- 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
