On 7/4/05, Nathan J. Yoder njyoder@energon.org wrote:
I also notice that no one has made an argument for why it should work that way, since it's clearly only meant to thwart block evasion (which this is not a case of).
You're right, Nathan. It does (at least in my estimation) seem to be either a bug or a serious design flaw. I had a look through Bugzilla (where the bugs with the software are reported) with a view to making a report, and it appears to already be reported, at the following URL: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856
Perhaps a solution would be to only autoblock the IP address if the user clicks edit while not logged in as the blocked username. That way, if they try to edit with a brand new username the autoblock would kick in (and thus avoid the problems you mentioned). It would also be handy if the period for the autoblock were reduced to match the time remaining on the main block, which is another bug/design flaw entirely I think.
~Mark Ryan