could an admin unblock me?
the block has lasted too long!
why won't anyone do anything? I have posted 3 times now to this mailing list, and had no response! I am willing to try some good faith if anyone else out there wants to!
User:Nasrallah
yours hopefully!
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
Theresa
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:12:51 +0000, ipodstar jewishneoconipod@gmail.com wrote:
could an admin unblock me?
the block has lasted too long!
why won't anyone do anything? I have posted 3 times now to this mailing list, and had no response! I am willing to try some good faith if anyone else out there wants to!
User:Nasrallah
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
I may have the same problem, and to make matters worse, I'm not even guilty of the charges
The following is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
07:07, 26 Dec 2004, Gamaliel blocked Jerryseinfeld (expires 07:07, 27 Dec 2004) (contribs) (posting copyvios, removing copyvio notices, was warned and continued)
10:51, 27 Dec 2004, Gamaliel blocked #13444 (expires 10:51, 28 Dec 2004) (Autoblocked because you share an IP address with "Jerryseinfeld". Reason "posting copyvios, removing copyvio notices, was warned and continued".)
From: Skyring skyring@gmail.com Reply-To: Skyring skyring@gmail.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] can an admin help me? why no action? Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:45:38 +1100
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
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Two things here:
1. Unfair if the user is never informed of they were blocked 2. Unfair if someone else uses an IP address they share. In that case the user has CLEARLY not evaded the block.
Care to explain how that system is a good thing?
TBSDY
Skyring wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
Is there no way to change it from 24 hrs to something less punitive? To be honest, I don't see that if an admin passes down a so-called "sentence", that it keeps being extended is fair at all. However, just as its true no-one who has ever been blocked has agreed with it, so its true that almost all admins think their block is justified, and see nothing wrong with their actions.
If a person wants to circumvent a block, they can and do. The extending block is overly harsh. 24hr block should mean 24 hours, not 48...
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:45:38 +1100, Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
-- Peter in Canberra _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Skyring (skyring@gmail.com) [041227 15:45]:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
Access, or edit? Those are blocks against *editing*.
(The developers are aware of this one, btw.)
- d.
Each time I check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist I'm on top with a 24 hour forward expiration.
From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: Skyring skyring@gmail.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] can an admin help me? why no action? Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:42:22 +1100
Skyring (skyring@gmail.com) [041227 15:45]:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:53:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I've unblocked you. It seems as if blocks are not expiring properly. I assume this has something to do with the new media wiki software. Will somebody in the know please fix this. In the meantime will all admins keep an eye on the list of blocked IP's and manually unblock all blocks whose time has expired.
24 hours are added on to the sentence each time the same IP address is used to access Wikipedia, even innocently.
Access, or edit? Those are blocks against *editing*.
(The developers are aware of this one, btw.)
- d.
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