You're correct - the second block is an IP address block, designed to
prevent people from just creating a new account.
The only odd thing here is that Nyjoder's parole is phrased as
"block," whereas the standard personal attack parole is usually a
ban. This merits a request for clarification, I think.
-Snowspinner
On Jul 1, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Sam Korn wrote:
She is
obligated to abide by the injunction, which means making it a
24 hour block. You don't understand what happened. It is NOT an
intentional feature of the system to auto-reblock for someone hitting
'edit' under their regular account that they were blocked under.
It's
a bug.
That wouldn't even make sense as a feature even if it were
intentional (which it's not), because that would mean if someone
didn't know they were blocked yet and went to hit 'edit', their block
would automatically be reset. IT also means that if they wanted to
check if their block was over or wanted to see the block page again
their block would also be reset.
As far as I recall (and if I am wrong, please correct me with
evidence) that the idea is to encourage problem users (and that is not
to call you thus) to stay away from wikipedia until their block has
expired. I believe it is mostly intended for bans. I think it is
also true that it looks at IP addresses, to stop people evading
blocks. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I believe that is how it works.
Sam
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