On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 30.06.2008, 1:47 Thomas wrote:
Is there any difference at all between $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['block'] = true; and $wgSysopUserBans = true; ? If not, then it should certainly be deprecated (and should have been as soon as the current user rights system was implemented, really).
The first permits sysops to block in principle, the second - to block registered users.
...because in the beginning, it wasn't possible for a sysop to block a username. (That's why the block form is "Special:BlockIP" and not "Special:Block". :-))