On 09/08/06, Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:
the steward response of dropping the sysop flag worked to stop it spreading further.
Actually not. There weren't any stewards around and the perpetrator remained sysopped for a full day, doing hundreds of random blocks and unblocks. We had to wait for developer intervention to remove the flag in the database. Quite a nonperformance for the otherwise well-functioning steward team. We'll take Wikimania as a good excuse :-)
Cheers, Wildrick http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus