On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Turvey <[email protected] > wrote:
> Automatic suspension of admins who have been inactive after a certain > period sounds like a prudent idea - and also of admins who turn inactive > after posting any kind of "resignation" message. By all means allow them to > be re-activated on request without going through RFA . > > Andrew > Very frequently, some sort of "get it back, no big deal" routine is mentioned in tandem with these proposals, but that's always seemed a bit naive, to me. If a rogue account can get superuser rights back *just by asking*, the security gained in removing those rights seems questionable. Sanity checks might work in a small community, but assuming a user has been gone for years, I don't see the utility. -Luna _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
