[WikiEN-l] Re: Selective blocking (was: Abuse of admin powers by David Gerard and Snowspinner)

[Tim Starling]

Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> I expected the new software to include the feature we've all been asking
> for, that would block a user from "all pages but his own talk page" - or
> "all pages but a few specific ones". The purpose of this was to enable a
> user to protest a block - without having to create a new account or find
> a new ISP.
> 
> Pending development of this feature, why not:
> (1) Unblock the user account.
> (2) Requent the user to confine his edits to his user talk page (and
> possibly a short list of other pages)
> (3) Watch his contribs, and instantly revert and edits outside his
> assigned scope.
> (4) Re-block his account if #3 becomes tedious.
> 
> This is bending over backwards to be fair. And I wouldn't mind being the
> first to try it - if enough others think the experiment is worth trying.

I could do a quick hack to allow blocked users to edit their own talk
page, if that's what you want. It's a much simpler feature to the other
thing I'm working on at the moment, i.e. per-article blocking.

-- Tim Starling