Talk:Global locks/Archives/2015
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Locking to disable email
Locking now disables incoming email. Can locks be used for the sole purpose of blocking email? --Nemo 21:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- You mean whether a user can request to be locked in order not to get mails anymore? --MF-W 00:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
- That sounds overkill, one can just remove one's own email address in preferences. :) I mean whether it can be decided that an account should not receive email and that it be locked for the sake of disabling it, even if it would otherwise not be locked. --Nemo 22:00, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Ugh. This was a change which disables, not the locked user, but the community. It would have been easily possible to disable watchlist notifications, though, in fact, the lock tool has always been understood as a hack, a poor substitute for global blocks. What this does is to shut down the possibility of any investigation by the community of locks, of discovering fact, as might be voluntarily disclosed by the locked user, and, the elephant in the living room, of attempts to negotiate an end to the massive Russavia disruption, which is causing very substantial collateral damage.
Content created by the user, their watchlist, becomes inaccessible to them. Why? Globally banned users are not prohibited from voluntary contact with other users, who may then, say, investigate a situation for the welfare of the wiki. A global block would still allow account access.
Thanks, Nemo, for pointing to that. One might think that these things would be discussed on-wiki before moving the developers and changing the software. At least, now, I know, I had merely noticed that email was gone where I knew it had been there. I've even asked about it, no response. --Abd (talk) 19:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)