On 1-Mar-09, at 3:26 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, ChrisiPK <[email protected]> wrote:
>> there is a discussion going on on Commons about a rollback policy.  
>> This
>> involves deciding how users should be given this permission. We have
>> been discussing autopromotion, but Andrew told us on IRC that he  
>> thinks
>> it's not possible to revoke autopromoted rights. Revoking rollback
>> permission is very important to take care of
>> edit-warring/mass-rollbacking troublemakers, so we don't want to
>> surrender this possibility. Can anyone comment on this, is it
>> effectively impossible to revoke automatically given rights?
>
> It would be possible, although kind of hackish.  The procedure would
> be to create a "norollback" group that can be manually granted and
> revoked, then make the autopromote criteria for rollback require that
> the user not be in the "norollback" group.  Possibly a nicer way of
> doing this would be good, but it should be good enough for now.
>
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Or it can be done like FlaggedRevs did with the Editor group.

Techman224


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