On 3/5/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
No, it's just the username that's blocked indefinitely. The IP might be hit with an autoblock, but us otherwise perfectly able to edit 24 hours after.
Ok, now I'm getting confused. When you say the *username* is blocked indefinitely, you mean that the user account can no longer edit, but the IP that created it can? Or do you mean that henceforth no one can create an account with that username? (I suppose the first implies the second anyway...)
I also wasn't familiar with autoblocking. Interesting...haven't had time to think about the repercussions of that yet.
When was the username policy last edited? I can't remember a single thing you cited in that first post of this thread.
At a quick glance, that paragraph seems to be at least a couple of months old.
Anyway, there are names that should never see the light of day and it would indeed be a waste of time to rename those only to have them be blocked again when they start editing/vandalizing.
I gather from this post and the next, that the problem is "serial username creators", such that any "xxx on wheels" is the same user. I hadn't realised that history when I complained about blocking users on sight for certain user names. The policy could definitely be updated to take that into account though (especially as it seems to be common practice?)
Steve