[Wikipedia-l] Re: Sysop ability to ban logged in users

[Tim Starling]

Toby Bartels wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's idiotic. What for is a ban where one can "unban oneself" ?

Finally he cottons on. I did say it twice, on wikitech-l:

:Tsk tsk, don't you people read? ;) I said:
:
::As usual, these automatically generated entries, and the original
::username entries, can be unblocked by any sysop (even blocked sysops).

> 
> For nothing, obviously.  So why are we worrying about it?
> 
> What would be, if not idiotic, then at any rate a waste of effort,
> would be to alter the natural code for blocking user names
> so that it checks that whether the user names are admins first.
> 
> You make a fair case that blocking admins for real is a bad idea;
> but since that can't happen anyway, why bother altering the code?

Only developers can effectively block sysops, by first removing the 
user's sysop status and then banning the user.

-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>