Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-31924693-20161115231149

Over the years, I have quite a few times come across pages accidentally or carelessly being wrecked by users uploading a new image which isn't an improved version of the existing one. Most recently, this happened on the Pixar Wiki, with an editor carelessly overwriting an image of Gloom (deleted character from Inside Out) with one of Buddy Pine from The Incredibles.In all (or nearly all) such cases, this has been because the file has had a too-generic name such as "logo.png" or (as in the above case) "image.jpeg".

I suspect that the problem is that, as with the NHS mail flood which is currently in the news, which was made worse by the clueless using "reply to all" because it's "cool" when in fact it's dumb (especially in cases such as this), the image problem is caused by people unthinkingly checking the "ignore all warnings" box when uploading, failing to realise that any warnings they get are for a reason.

I think that "ignore all warnings" should thus be reserved for users of admin status or higher, who can presumably (in most cases, anyway — I have twice been blocked by incompetent admins, which I presume is why infinite blocks are frowned upon) be trusted to use it responsibly. What does anyone else think? 