Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Aryeh Gregor:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> There may be an easy way, but I can see a rather complicated way: You
>>> create a dummy usergroup which you add people to when you want to
>>> remove their autopromoted rights and then include "NOT a member of the
>>> dummy group" as a condition for autopromotion.
>> Yeah, I thought of that too, but that's unnecessarily complicated UI.
>> Perhaps that logic could be hidden in the software, and
>> Special:UserRights could just display "remove this group" like usual.
> 
> That should be possible. It's beyond me, though, I'm afraid.

Wait!! Do you mean Autopromoted groups are recalculated on each request?

If the above works, that would be a way to fix the long-awaited bug 4995
(block from uploading).
Remove upload from user group and autopromote giving upload right to any
user not on the upload-blocked group.


*Ok, not too elegant, but after two years and having used worse quirks,
a solution without needing painful schema changes (not even code!) would
be great.


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