[Foundation-l] Planned change to default IP blocking behavior

Sean Whitton sean at silentflame.com
Thu Oct 19 20:17:41 UTC 2006


I agree, but I think by having the default settings as I suggest, the
right message is being sent out. However, you're right - it's trivial
to override it in monobook.

S

On 18/10/06, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> Sean Whitton schreef:
> > I would agree with switching the boxes - we need to assume good faith
> > with blocks, not the opposite. However, I agree that a lot of blocks
> > would need the box ticking - it would make sysops without scripts
> > think about it before hitting the button.
> >
> > Just my thoughts.
> >
> > S
>
> When the new blocking options where created user w:en:user:Lupin posted
> some javascript to change the default blocking options. I suppose that
> will still work when the default options are changed.
>
> So users or wikis can override the default options if the wish to do so.
>
> See;
> http://en.wikizine.org/2006/07/wikizine-number-34_17.html
>
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