User talk:Susurrus
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Hello Susurrus and welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you've been around for a week already, and no welcome! I think we must be getting lax. Anyway, I hope you decide to stay. If you do, tell us something about yourself on your user page. Are you Australian? If so, add yourself to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia -- I like to keep track of everyone. Have fun. -- Tim Starling 11:32 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)
Hello, Tim, and thanks for your welcome. I am glad to be here. I have added my name to the list of Australian users as per your request, and I have added a little bit of biographical information onto my user page. -- Susurrus.
Yes, I've noticed the problem with the search feature. Personally, I've just been using the "go" button for most things, and the google search where that isn't enough. The usual way to report a problem like this is to email wikitech-l -- see Wikipedia:Mailing lists. I'll do it myself if you want. -- Tim Starling 23:53 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
If you would do that for me, that would be great! In the meantime, thanks for the tips for workarounds. -- Susurrus
- There's been some discussion of this at the Village pump, and it was then moved to Wikipedia talk:Searching. To sum up, it was deliberately turned off to try to speed up the server performance, but nobody bothered to put a sign on there saying it wouldn't work. :-\ -- John Owens 09:24 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)
It's not quite that easy to block a logged in user. Ordinary sysops like myself can block IP addresses, but there's no simple way to find out the IP address of a logged in user. There's about 50 users at my rank. Only the developers (of which there are 5) can ban a user by username, or find out their IP address. Most of the developers only read the mailing lists, they don't watch RC (recent changes). What we would usually do in a case like this is revert whatever the annoying user does for a while before we take further action.
In the future, report things like this to Problem users or Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress, rather than to me. -- Tim Starling 00:42 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Incidentally Susurrus, the user you were worried about doesn't seem to have made any edits since early February, so I don't think there's anything to worry about. --Camembert
- Thanks, Tim. -- Susurrus