on 1/2/05 10:13 PM, actionforum(a)comcast.net at actionforum(a)comcast.net
wrote:
** snip **
After the block was in place, each
time we even looked at a page, the block was automatically extended,
which made it appear to other admins that we were acting in bad faith,
trying to made edits while blocked.
An edit attempt after one has been blocked should not be considered acting in
bad faith, because often that is the only way one finds out that one has been
blocked.
That seems to be a bug in the system, particularly (I suspectd) if one has a
dynamic ip. Everytime you log in one seems to get an autmated ban which (in
the case of a ban that was supposed to be 24 hours) expired 24 hours from
the attempted login rather than from when the ban was originally
implemented.
I received no notice on my talk page for instance. Someone may not
attempt an edit for hours, so the current automation
(which has been admitted
to be erroneous) would add those hours to the 24 hour period. Attempting and
edit might also be a legitimate way to check if the block is over.
Unfortunately, the current system blocks the usual wiki ways to communicate on
talk pages, and does not automatically unblock you, that requires an error
prone and burdensome manual vigilance on the part of the administrators. The
good news is that they are aware of this and asking for a solution.
-- Silverback
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