Author: happy_melon
Description:
Similar to, and building on, bug 15641: administrators being able to unblock themselves seems ludicrous except for the valid points raised in comment #2 of that bug. However, these apply only on wikis that are both A) small enough for one rogue admin to be able to lock out all the others before being stopped, and B) not part of a framework such as wikimedia, where the steward system, global groups, global blocking, etc, renders such attacks impossible. Surely, blocked administrators' ability to self-unblock should be a boolean parameter in LocalSettings.php, defaulting to true, that can be revoked when a wiki grows to the stage where the feature becomes more of a hindrance than a help.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement