[WikiEN-l] Autoconfirmed threshold

[Andrew Gray]

On 31/01/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to unconfirm people when they get blocked
> (possibly as an extra option for admins on the block page)? So they
> have to go another 4 days and 10 edits. It would mean that blocking
> someone for 24 hows stops them editing semi-protected pages for 4
> days, which would be useful - far better to let someone do basic
> editing after a short time, and more damaging editing after a longer
> time.

Interesting premise, but it does fail to differentiate between
"something's gone wrong, stop this person for five minutes" blocks,
and 'punishment'/'cooling-off' blocks. Hmm.

> (I seem to remember than the 4 days thing is actually done as a you
> mustn't be in the most recent 1% of signups, or something, which would
> make resetting that part a little more effort on the part of the
> devs...)

It used to be "the most recent n% of users", and was used to determine
who could move pages. Then we enabled semi-protection, and it seemed
sensible to reuse this definition as the target group. At about the
same time the definition was changed from something based on number of
accounts to a fixed three-or-four day limit, which was roughly the
same period of time but less of a logistical hassle (and harder to
game by flooding new accounts)

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