From: Skyring skyring@gmail.com
On 7/4/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
From: "Nathan J. Yoder" njyoder@energon.org
No, it's supposed to work that way. It's doing exactly what it is
intended
to do.
No, it's supposed to protect against block evasion, how is it doing that in this case?
Attempts to edit while you are blocked are attempts to evade the block.
That doesn't make sense. A blocked user CANNOT edit.
Well, that's not really accurate, but most blocked users can no longer us a different Userid to avoid the block, precisely because Wikipedia blocks the IP address when attempts are made to do this. That wasn't the case before the IP blocker was added.
What purpose does it serve exactly?
Protects against block evasion.
How so? A blocked user CANNOT edit.
If only that were the case. In practice, blocked editors edit all the time; this simply stops the ones with fixed IP addresses from editing with sockpuppets.
Jay.