On 7/2/05, Phil Sandifer sandifer@sbcglobal.net wrote:
-Snowspinner
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Nathan J. Yoder wrote:
You're correct - the second block is an IP address block, designed to prevent people from just creating a new account.
Yes, which why this isn't functioning properly. It should only renew it if the person tries it while not logged in or if they create/use another account (a sock puppet) to try to edit (in other words--if they try to evade the block). That's not what I was doing though, I was logged in as User:Njyoder the entire time and didn't realize until later that by hitting 'edit' it automatically renewed it.
Ah, I see. Perhaps you would like to look at the Mediawiki code and fix this problem then, because, honestly, you're the one who cares.
-Snowspinner
This utterly dismissive attitude toward a complaint is very harmful to Wikipedia, even if you don't believe the complaint is legitimate. You should have either directed him to the developer's list, or civilly stated your opinion whether this was a desirable bug or feature, or simply left it to others to discuss.