There are two kinds of autoblocking - direct hardblocks on IPs and
user blocks with autoblock enabled. In the latter type, the blocks on
the IPs of the user are only blocked for 24 hours from when the user
last tried to use said IPs... and the background colour of the
blocking message is much more relaxing. Blue rather than stressful
pink with a red X thingy, and then a lot of the blocking templates
have another red X thingy, so you end up with a pink background and
two red X thingies, which is quite stressful. (Compare
[[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] and [[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]].) ;_;
Someone ought to change them to light blue or lavender and put in
happier little images... not to mention add helpful explanations to
the templates of what the blocked person should do if he or she wants
to appeal.
This patch would be useful, although it has about 10 FIXMEs and is
around 2 years old:
http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/mediawiki-1.4.4-tor-block.patch
Basically, the idea would be that certain IP addresses would be
blocked as a set, automatically, if any one of them were blocked, and
automatically unblocked after a certain period of time - temporary
blocking games, sort of like rangeblocking AOL for a short period of
time.
Also see explanation here:
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/May-2005/msg00128.html
Armed Blowfish
On 08/08/2007, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Also, this discussion at the Village Pump:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VPP#Biting_newcomers
IMO we need to seriously rethink the way we approach username blocks.
Cheers,
C More schi
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
From: "Benjamin Hallert"
<ben(a)vipmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:30:14 -0700
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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