Admin gone gaga Options

[melloden]

Centrx has been making erratic edits recently.

So, desysop.

And, who is this?

[jsalsman]

Someone should ask a sysadmin to pull the database backups from January to see if the email is the same.

I can't believe I'm giving Wikipedia security forensics advice on WR.

[Bottled_Spider]

Someone should ask a sysadmin to pull the database backups from January to see if the email is the same.

I can't believe I'm giving Wikipedia security forensics advice on WR.

I should imagine that the otherwise awful AGK was intelligent enough to think of that brilliant piece of Wikipedia security forensics when he checkusered the account.

[jsalsman]

There is nothing in the checkuser extension that can see whether the email address associated with an account is the same as it was three or more months ago. Only the sysadmins can do that, and only if they examine the private (i.e., non-toolserver visible) backups.

If the account impostor is from the same household, such as a mischievous adolescent consistent with the recent account behavior is likely to be, then checkuser is worthless.

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[Bottled_Spider]

There is nothing in the checkuser extension that can see whether the email address associated with an account is the same as it was three or more months ago. Only the sysadmins can do that, and only if they examine the private (i.e., non-toolserver visible) backups.

If the account impostor is from the same household, such as a mischievous adolescent consistent with the recent account behavior is likely to be, then checkuser is worthless.

Part of the checking process involved actually getting in touch with the guy in question, so presumably there is no mischievous adolescent involved unless he is one himself. Hello?

...... this:

Blarg ... Babble bebble bibble. Also, penis.

...is almost certainly what that admin is actually thinking. (Especially that last bit!)

So, far from being "desysopped" or blocked, I'd say Mr. Ranger here should be promoted to "Steward."

He's maybe one of those people that uses some sort of speech-to-text facility in which case it's what he's actually saying. Either way it doesn't bear thinking about (though I just have).

[jsalsman]

Part of the checking process involved actually getting in touch with the guy in question, so presumably there is no mischievous adolescent involved unless he is one himself.

That's why I suggested checking to see if his email had been changed between the time of his completely normal editing last year and adding existential questions to the top of the Main Page.

[Bottled_Spider]

Part of the checking process involved actually getting in touch with the guy in question, so presumably there is no mischievous adolescent involved unless he is one himself.

That's why I suggested checking to see if his email had been changed between the time of his completely normal editing last year and adding existential questions to the top of the Main Page.

Yes. Perhaps that's one of the questions they asked him. Perhaps they asked him "Hey, Centrx, what's the chance that your email's been changed since last year and some mischievous adolescent hijacked and compromised your account? Eh? Go on, tell us!". Yep...... it's a mystery.