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?
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.