All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, something is seriously wrong with his rights. He has no memberships in any togglable groups, but his edits bypass the Mod queue and as MC just noted, he's got delete privileges. I've dropped a request to investigate this onto the Stewards' page, but if necessary I'll do up a Phabricator ticket for it.

And we have an answer -- it's not a bug, or a hack, or anything like that.

Hello @Looney Toons, to answer your immediate question, @DarkMatterMan4500 is part of our global patroller group which is tasked with counter-vandalism activities globally on the Miraheze platform. This is why they were able to take actions beyond what local rights would normally permit.
These rights generally should only be used on request from the local community or on untended wikis without active administration specifically for counter-vandalism. We'll review internally to confirm appropriateness of usage and if follow-up action is needed on our part.
Thanks for the report!
--NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 19:36, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

In which case, no issue at all.

I'm going to go in and give him a belated grandfathering, more as a symbolic thing given he has far more rights than it would grant. As for page deletions, he's already responded on the Stewards' page that he will leave that to us from now on.

EDIT: No, I lied. There is an unexpected hole in Moderation, but not one that would affect any usual users:

Moderation is more difficult. I passed this through to tech and apparently there is a behavior where people with rollback also skip moderation. This was found by {{user|RhinosF1}] reviewing the code and doesn't seem to be documented. This was a choice on the part of the Moderation developer(s) and since rollback is a crucial part of CVT this is not something we can casually remove. ... --raidarr (?) 17:09, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

If someone has rollback rights on ATT, I would expect they're already trusted sufficiently that they'd be automoderated anyway.