On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, ChrisiPK chrisipk@gmail.com wrote:
there is a discussion going on on Commons about a rollback policy. This involves deciding how users should be given this permission. We have been discussing autopromotion, but Andrew told us on IRC that he thinks it's not possible to revoke autopromoted rights. Revoking rollback permission is very important to take care of edit-warring/mass-rollbacking troublemakers, so we don't want to surrender this possibility. Can anyone comment on this, is it effectively impossible to revoke automatically given rights?
It would be possible, although kind of hackish. The procedure would be to create a "norollback" group that can be manually granted and revoked, then make the autopromote criteria for rollback require that the user not be in the "norollback" group. Possibly a nicer way of doing this would be good, but it should be good enough for now.