[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[Casey Brown]

As Armed Blowfish said a few minutes ago, we are not blocking them for
life.  Autoblocks expire after 24 hours whether we want them to or not.
Also, "account creation disabled" just works for the *account* itself, not
the underlying IP.  Therefore, I do not see how your problem still exists.

On 8/8/07, Benjamin Hallert <ben at vipmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've seen a lot of username blocks recently with account creation disabled
> and autoblock enabled, or a combination of the two.  Some of the admins I
> spoke with said they were doing this on purpose because of 'bad faith
> usernames'.  As these are essentially lifetime bans from Wikipedia (my IP
> address, while dynamic, lasts months at a time), I think the wording of
> WP:U
> should be changed so it doesn't explicitly endorse this, and I'd like some
> consideration to the idea of avoiding hardblocks for username violations
> because of the heaviness of the action.
>
> I've started a discussion on WP:U and on Template:UsernameHardBlocked
> about
> aspects of this issue and would like to solicit additional input from the
> community.
>
> Nowhere else on Wikipedia do we essentially within our powers ban someone
> for life on the result of a single misstep, and I don't believe we should
> do
> it here too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chairboy
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