On 31/01/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to unconfirm people when they get blocked (possibly as an extra option for admins on the block page)? So they have to go another 4 days and 10 edits. It would mean that blocking someone for 24 hows stops them editing semi-protected pages for 4 days, which would be useful - far better to let someone do basic editing after a short time, and more damaging editing after a longer time.
Interesting premise, but it does fail to differentiate between "something's gone wrong, stop this person for five minutes" blocks, and 'punishment'/'cooling-off' blocks. Hmm.
(I seem to remember than the 4 days thing is actually done as a you mustn't be in the most recent 1% of signups, or something, which would make resetting that part a little more effort on the part of the devs...)
It used to be "the most recent n% of users", and was used to determine who could move pages. Then we enabled semi-protection, and it seemed sensible to reuse this definition as the target group. At about the same time the definition was changed from something based on number of accounts to a fixed three-or-four day limit, which was roughly the same period of time but less of a logistical hassle (and harder to game by flooding new accounts)