[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

[Elisabeth Anderl]

Hello, such claims "they did nothing" should have a ground, imho...

DerHexer blocked that range after it had been used for massive cross-wiki
vandalism, it had been blocked on en.wiki before and after sul was available
the user abused it to vandalize from other projects.
The other user had a block exemption on en.wiki, which did not work after a
global block and contacted DerHexer, we opened a
request<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15288>at
bugzilla that it should work for global blocks too, which was fixed
the
next day.

@global group IP-block-exemption, that should _not_ be decided by stewards,
but by the community, who should assign it, should it overwrite a local
block too, etc.
I suggest You better open a discussion for that on Meta instead on the
mailinglist, because then the group might actually be created. Thanks.

E.

2008/9/14 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>

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> DerHexter forwarded this problem to the stewards mailing list.  They did
> nothing to help this guy so he asked me to unblock him locally.  I unblocked
> the IP locally as that was all I could do.  If there is a global solution
> people are denying it in practice for some reason that I don't know.
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> Birgitte SB
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