2008/6/29 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
Voice of All wrote:
I'd keep it. Some site admins may not feel comfortable with sysops being able to block large portions of internet users, especially if they don't know what they are doing. But, yes, not used much.
$wgSysopUserBans controls the ability to block individual user accounts.
Is there any difference at all between
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['block'] = true;
and
$wgSysopUserBans = true;
?
If not, then it should certainly be deprecated (and should have been as soon as the current user rights system was implemented, really).