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I was wondering if there were plans to change policy in order to prevent that things like last weekend can happen again? Fe: keep track where Jason is (going) so we don't have to worry about finding him...
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You are right timvw, this should never happen again and you can not wait for someone to rescue again.
There should be very hard rules laid down. All posts, admins/moderators, should be shared among a couple of people.

You can mandate change of passwords are allowed only if all/few of the admins sign in at the same time and then they get the change password screen to change the password.

It can be something like Admin A has a temporary password for locking change of password; Admin B has a temporary password for locking change of password. Now Admin A or B should use both temporary passwords to get the change password screen.
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I don't think that's possible though... (that would require changes in control panel code)
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Post by Roja »

raghavan20 wrote:You are right timvw, this should never happen again and you can not wait for someone to rescue again.
There should be very hard rules laid down. All posts, admins/moderators, should be shared among a couple of people.
The important thing to remember is that the rules we already had covered the situation correctly. Writing additional rules doesn't change or improve the situation.

The issue comes down to a common problem in communities: Someone pays the bill. Whoever that is (and here, its Jason) is always going to be a "single point of contact".

Put another way, if he pays the bills (and we all appreciate that he does!), then he is the final controller of the board. There is no "rule" or "patch" that can change that situation.

But frankly, we don't need to. The system worked very well. A user caused problems. The moderation team addressed the issue. When the user took over the board, the owner was contacted. The owner had restored the correct authority less than 48 hours later.

Thats incredibly good response time for a volunteer-run, free website.

Put another way, we ain't broken. Nothing here to fix. Everything worked, with the exception of one individual.

Lets move on.
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