On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:27:50 -0700, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anybody else feel a pang of spite in
> "There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless  
> you visit this page."
> especially when other software doesn't force the user to "prove his
> loyalty" each time like something from
> * Your World As I See It - Guilt
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8&list=PL6E40919035151385
That's an interesting way to take a feature likely intended to avoid  
spamming a user with piles of notification e-mails.

> Why can't he be given a choice between "subscriptions that keep dying"
> and "subscriptions that act like ones everybody else is used to"?
>
> I'm talking about official MediaWiki software decisions, please don't
> mention 'you can just install an extension'.
>
> And OK maybe if one is worried about too many dead
> accounts there could also be 'renew once per 365 etc. days' features --
> that users could also pick from too...

Start watching the bug on this issue:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31928

After that... either pay someone off to fix it or wait till someone feels  
like fixing it. It's already a known issue.

-- 
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

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