[WikiEN-l] A few different topics

Mon Sep 1 05:12:18 UTC 2003

I disagree -- the easier we make it to block someone,
the shorter the time ought be. Keeping a block valid
even for a day is in most cases more than good enough.

-S- 

--- Dante Alighieri <dalighieri at digitalgrapefruit.com>
wrote:
> At 06:11 PM 8/31/2003, you wrote:
> >We don't yet have a deletion/sysop event log table.
> If you'd like to whip 
> >one up before I get to it, it would happen sooner
> rather than later.
> >
> >-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
> C'mon, Brion, you slacker! Get to it! What the heck
> are we paying you for, 
> anyway? ;)
> 
> I would suggest an auto-expiration of IP blocks at
> one week. This will most 
> likely be long enough to discourage people from
> repeat vandalism without 
> unduly affecting those poor souls who share dynamic
> IPs with vandals.
> 
> On another note, could someone (sorry Brion) please
> make it easier to IP 
> block? Unless I'm missing something obvious, as it
> stands right now I have 
> to muck through the Recent Changes until I find an
> edit by a given IP 
> before I can block them. It would be extraordinarily
> useful to have a 
> Special:Block_this_IP page where one could manually
> enter in an IP to have 
> it blocked. At the very least, an option to block
> could be a link on an 
> IP-users contribution page or something.
> 
> 
> -----
> Dante Alighieri
> dalighieri at digitalgrapefruit.com
> 
> "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
> who maintain their 
> neutrality in times of great moral crisis."
>     -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
> 
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