mikelifeguard(a)fastmail.fm wrote:
From: Birgitte SB [mailto:birgitte_sb@yahoo.com]
Frankly how to handle these anticipated problems
_should_ have been decided
in concert with the decision to implement of this feature. I had thought
they had been. Obvoiusly the feature was rolled out without addressing the
concerns that people expressed over this during the intial discussion of
such a feature. That should not have happened but here we are.
That's actually false - the discussion regarding global blocking
addressed
these concerns explicitly and extensively, as you can well see for yourself:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_blocking/Archive_1
Ipblock-exempt and a local whitelist on the IP are both options you are free
to use to help legitimate users caught in global blocks.
Those are talk pages, and the fact that there had to be an archive is
clear evidence that the discussion was a lengthy one. But wading
through endless talk pages is no way to find an answer to an immediate
problem.
Documentation for how to deal with the kinds of problems that Birgitte
has encountered should be easily available on each site. The Village
Pump is probably not the best place since that is mostly for current
discussions, and it will not be easily found after the notice has been
archived. To expect non-technical people to resort to Bugzilla is
expecting too much.
Ec