I was thinking of a way to test cunc's question -- by
making a new username and banning it from my login,
but seeing that the ban is apparently of the ip - i
would be banning me, wouldnt i?
Im glad to see this put in -- Heine was a humungus big
pain in the ass last night, (major props out to
Hephaestos for trailing and keeping a sense of humour
about it) --
Still maybe cung is right --in case this isnt already
on the plate -- A routinely upadted shortlist of sysop
ips for a check against a "ban username" function --
might be appropriate. With each login, the each user
ip is updated. Only rarely might a conflict arise due
to a same-ip range for dynamic ip sysops and potential
problem user.
-S-
--- The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> wrote:
From: Tim
Starling
I did a quick hack which allows sysops to ban
logged-in users. This
was
discussed on wikien-l long, long ago, and was
widely agreed to be a
good
idea (well, not that widely, but Jimbo was
particularly keen).
Basically
you
just type the username into the ban IP box. I
changed a few messages
to
indicate that you could do it.
I assume that sysops can be banned through this
interface as well. The
hack sounds pretty ugly. Banning by username should
be done by banning
through the login (i.e. the cookies) not by checking
IP.
Have these changes been checked in?
This is not something that should go live without
discussion on the main
mailing list.
-tc
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