Toby Bartels wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
That's idiotic. What for is a ban where one can "unban oneself" ?
Finally he cottons on. I did say it twice, on wikitech-l:
:Tsk tsk, don't you people read? ;) I said: : ::As usual, these automatically generated entries, and the original ::username entries, can be unblocked by any sysop (even blocked sysops).
For nothing, obviously. So why are we worrying about it?
What would be, if not idiotic, then at any rate a waste of effort, would be to alter the natural code for blocking user names so that it checks that whether the user names are admins first.
You make a fair case that blocking admins for real is a bad idea; but since that can't happen anyway, why bother altering the code?
Only developers can effectively block sysops, by first removing the user's sysop status and then banning the user.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>