I’ve just finished a new feature for the LGF Blog — a “timeout” block, instead of a permanent block. It’s a temporary block on a registered lizard’s account that expires in 24 hours.

I did this to give us some more flexibility in handling the situation when discussions turn into flame wars or people’s tempers flare up. The idea is to give people a chance to cool down and think about whether they want to push it to the point of losing their account, before it gets there.

If your account gets a timeout, you see the message, “This account is temporarily blocked - please try again later,” when you try to log in.