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post Mon 18th July 2011, 3:19am
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Anyone notice this? Or that on Meta it was listed and used to desysop a lot of old, old admin accounts with no activity? It seems silly that it took so very long for this to happen. I do love how those like Abd fought tooth and nail for it to happen at Wikiversity. I'm rather glad that they finally fixed the problem on Wikipedia.

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post Mon 18th July 2011, 3:46am
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Mon 18th July 2011, 1:19pm) *

Anyone notice this? Or that on Meta it was listed and used to desysop a lot of old, old admin accounts with no activity? It seems silly that it took so very long for this to happen. I do love how those like Abd fought tooth and nail for it to happen at Wikiversity. I'm rather glad that they finally fixed the problem on Wikipedia.

What problem is that exactly?
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post Mon 18th July 2011, 4:00am
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QUOTE(Kevin @ Mon 18th July 2011, 3:46am) *

QUOTE(Ottava @ Mon 18th July 2011, 1:19pm) *

Anyone notice this? Or that on Meta it was listed and used to desysop a lot of old, old admin accounts with no activity? It seems silly that it took so very long for this to happen. I do love how those like Abd fought tooth and nail for it to happen at Wikiversity. I'm rather glad that they finally fixed the problem on Wikipedia.

What problem is that exactly?

Now people who buy old admin accounts have to go to WP:BN and wait 6 hours to get the tools back instead of being able to do what they want immediately.
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Ottava   Removing inactive admin   Mon 18th July 2011, 3:19am
Ottava   I was thinking more of the zombie accounts. :P Bu...   Mon 18th July 2011, 1:33pm
lilburne   being active, OK doing good work, OK no...   Mon 18th July 2011, 1:45pm
Abd   Anyone notice this? Or that on Meta it was listed...   Mon 18th July 2011, 7:49pm
It's the blimp, Frank   Why do we need to remove inactive admins? They...   Tue 19th July 2011, 1:28am
Abd   Why do we need to remove inactive admins? They...   Tue 19th July 2011, 1:47am
Ottava   Why do we need to remove inactive admins? They...   Tue 19th July 2011, 4:13am
Vigilant   [quote name='Abd' post='280569' date='Mon 18th Ju...   Tue 19th July 2011, 5:16am
Abd   Abd, the only bogus arguments tend to come from yo...   Tue 19th July 2011, 5:44pm
Ottava   ... and removing some for no offense, but only be...   Tue 19th July 2011, 8:39pm
Vigilant   Abd has no place in any kind of academic facility ...   Tue 19th July 2011, 11:21pm
Kelly Martin   Just remove all the admins. Make Jimbo do everyth...   Tue 19th July 2011, 1:43am
EricBarbour   Fetchcomms is right, but still a dick: Too bad it...   Tue 19th July 2011, 2:22am
SpiderAndWeb   Anyone notice this? Or that on Meta it was liste...   Tue 19th July 2011, 7:57am
Milton Roe   [quote name='Ottava' post='280508' date='Mon 18th...   Tue 19th July 2011, 2:54pm
The Joy   Why not have developers make so that sysop account...   Tue 19th July 2011, 8:16am
Kelly Martin   Why not have developers make so that sysop account...   Tue 19th July 2011, 1:02pm
Kelly Martin   And once again, Martin's Law strikes.   Tue 19th July 2011, 8:54pm
Somey   And once again, Martin's Law strikes. Since ...   Tue 19th July 2011, 9:03pm
SB_Johnny   [quote name='Kelly Martin' post='280645' date='Tu...   Wed 20th July 2011, 12:43am
Zoloft   [quote name='Kelly Martin' post='280645' date='T...   Wed 20th July 2011, 1:34am
Kelly Martin   Fail. Ottava started the thread.Martin's Law s...   Wed 20th July 2011, 2:15am
EricBarbour   -_-   Wed 20th July 2011, 1:22am

 

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