2009/2/19 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/19 Aryeh Gregor:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
There may be an easy way, but I can see a rather complicated way: You create a dummy usergroup which you add people to when you want to remove their autopromoted rights and then include "NOT a member of the dummy group" as a condition for autopromotion.
Yeah, I thought of that too, but that's unnecessarily complicated UI. Perhaps that logic could be hidden in the software, and Special:UserRights could just display "remove this group" like usual.
That should be possible. It's beyond me, though, I'm afraid.
Wait!! Do you mean Autopromoted groups are recalculated on each request?
I seem to remember reading that somewhere. I could be wrong...
If the above works, that would be a way to fix the long-awaited bug 4995 (block from uploading). Remove upload from user group and autopromote giving upload right to any user not on the upload-blocked group.
*Ok, not too elegant, but after two years and having used worse quirks, a solution without needing painful schema changes (not even code!) would be great.
Yeah, that should do it.