Last modified: 2007-01-07 03:23:56 UTC
Some good contributors unfortunately share an IP address with vandals. I propose adding a user right to enable known good users with a history of being caught as a side effect of IP blocks to be exempt from all normal IP blocks, autoblocks, range blocks, and proxy blacklists. The proposed user right, however, would not exempt the user from a block applied directly to the user's account. I created a small patch (currently completely untested) which adds the new user right (which I called 'noipblock') and a group with that right (also 'noipblock').
Created attachment 997 [details] Patch to implement the proposed semantics Patch to implement the proposed semantics. This patch is completely untested.
Related discussion on en: *[[User talk:Grutness#Block]] *[[Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy proposal#A compromise]]
This is a duplicate of [[Bug:550]], I've marked it as such but don't know how to copy comments/patches. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 550 ***
Not a duplicate, what this bug and bug 550 are asking for is slightly different (bug 550 asks for a flag on the IP block, and this one asks for a flag on the user account).
I would move the patch to Bug 550 and mark this duplicate, becacuse we're discussing the same end result with different methods.
While I would agree it would be good to discuss alternatives all in one spot, I do not believe this alternative or any others have been properly discussed under Bug 550. Here are some other proposals, some of which are complementary, and some do not have the same result: Bug 1294, Bug 2044. Note that 1294 looks very similar, but has a totally different intent and result.
Fixed in r18904.
