[WikiEN-l] Re: Per-article blocking (was: RickK leaving)

Wed Jun 22 01:18:26 UTC 2005

On 6/22/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050622 10:39]:
> 
> > Are there any objections to this? I'm accustomed to all blocking-related
> > features being controversial, but this one seems to be unusually
> > well-supported.
> 
> It would certainly make 3RR blocks much less controversial.
> Mind you, I'm now trying to think of possible social side effects.

Making 3RR blocks more fine grained could avoid lots of bad blood.

Some possible side effects:
- Shunting "angst" to other related articles, though probably not significant
- Management interface for the access control list for (# of articles)
x (# of users)
- An article level block would probably be less stigmatized, so
possibility of more blocks happening

-User:Fuzheado