Agreed, the current options make the most sense to me.
xaosflux
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platonides" <Platonides(a)gmail.com>
To: <wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] How to change default options for blocking users?
You can customize it via a JavaScript, but i think
that the current
options are OK.
-> Block anonymous users only
You usually want to stop *all* vandalism from that ip. You may want to
soft it for proxys, but not usually.
->Prevent account creation
Blocks without account creation are mostly useless.
The default you ask allows to bypass default blocks, simply by creating an
account (remember: it's instantaneus, you don't even need for an email)
and vandalizing with username.
"Walter Vermeir"
Thanks to Tim bug 550 is fixt and now it is
possible to be more specific
who and what you like to block.
To specify this there are 2 tick boxes with these default settings;
[ ] Block anonymous users only
[X] Prevent account creation
I find these are not good default settings. The default setting should
be the softest block possible. And that is only a block for anonymous
users and account creation allowed.
So that this would be the default setting;
[X] Block anonymous users only
[ ] Prevent account creation
Can this be specified somewhere by a sysop on the wiki?
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