Talk:Configuring user permissions
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Block -vs- Brig?
So what would be the difference between a chief using their ability to "block" a user and an officer moving a user to the "brig"? Do they do the same thing or is there a difference? Would one be short term and the other long term? We need to test both.
- brig
- Members of the crew who are in the brig can neither read nor edit pages. They can be removed from the brig by an officer based on good behaviour.
Is that when you banish somebody from the Pirates forum? You managed to get that interconnected??
--PovAddict 17 Jan 2007
They are different, but the details need to be understood. Blocking a user is built in to the wiki software, and I belive it can be based on either user name or IP address. It was implemented to control vandalism on Wikipedia.
The "brig" is implemented via user permission groups. One has to be put into this group or taken out of it "by hand" by someone who has permission to do so (an "officer"). I would think that this would be short term, while blocking would be long term.
If they accomplish the exact same thing (eg blocking can also be short term) then we can do away with the brig.
I have not yet tied banishment in BOINC to the brig here, but it looks like that might well be rather easy to do, and so we'll try it down the line.
--Wormholio 10:49, 17 January 2007 (EST)
I've added code to the cross-authentication plug-in to
- transfer the e-mail verification from BOINC to the wiki
- put users who are banished in BOINC in the 'brig'
--Rusty 11:06, 17 January 2007 (EST)
