User blog comment:Sannse/Choosing the Right Admins/@comment-24491155-20140912213400/@comment-452-20140913032438

3cooldog92 is correct, ... but so is IvyLover.

Without rights, http://disney-junior-sheriff-callies-wild-west.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Unblock/452 says:


 * "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, Bureaucrats, Wikia Staff, VSTF, Wikia Helpers, adminmentor."

Emphasis mine.

There is not much that Bureaucrats can do without admin rights, but Special:ListGroupRights shows the full list, which includes "Block other users from editing (block)" and "Unblock themselves (unblockself)"

However, we just tested again, this time I was only given Bureaucrat and not Admin, and while I was able to remove the block for "452", the autoblock is indeed still active, and I cannot remove seem to remove it.
 * "You cannot block or unblock other users, because you are yourself blocked"

I also cannot access Special:UserRights/452:
 * "Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "452"."

Like last time, I went straight to "Special:Unblock/452", and as far as I can tell, the only difference between the two tests was that I was not an admin the second time.

edit: I've sent in the results of this test via Special:Contact - I highly doubt this is intended behaviour.

I've noticed some problems with autoblock expiration recently, perhaps this is related.

edit: Or maybe not.

Looking a little closer at Special:ListGroupRights shows that Admins and not Bureaucrats have the "ipblock-exempt" right.