As Armed Blowfish said a few minutes ago, we are not blocking them for
life. Autoblocks expire after 24 hours whether we want them to or not.
Also, "account creation disabled" just works for the *account* itself, not
the underlying IP. Therefore, I do not see how your problem still exists.
On 8/8/07, Benjamin Hallert <ben(a)vipmail.com> wrote:
I've seen a lot of username blocks recently with account creation disabled
and autoblock enabled, or a combination of the two. Some of the admins I
spoke with said they were doing this on purpose because of 'bad faith
usernames'. As these are essentially lifetime bans from Wikipedia (my IP
address, while dynamic, lasts months at a time), I think the wording of
WP:U
should be changed so it doesn't explicitly endorse this, and I'd like some
consideration to the idea of avoiding hardblocks for username violations
because of the heaviness of the action.
I've started a discussion on WP:U and on Template:UsernameHardBlocked
about
aspects of this issue and would like to solicit additional input from the
community.
Nowhere else on Wikipedia do we essentially within our powers ban someone
for life on the result of a single misstep, and I don't believe we should
do
it here too.
Regards,
Chairboy
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