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If you can push something you could say it is pushable. What do you say about something which you can enable and about something which you can disable?

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Wiktionary actually has disableable (but not enableable, and there are no mentions of either in BNC/COCA). – RegDwighт♦ Apr 24 '11 at 2:24
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Perhaps "supports enabling" and "supports disabling". There is no one-word word equivalent. – dbkk Apr 24 '11 at 4:04
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Something you can disable is optional, toggleable, or perhaps switchable. – Jason Orendorff Apr 24 '11 at 5:58
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You could say pushable. It's not a word in the dictionary but if that's ok, why not enableable? – z7sg Ѫ Apr 24 '11 at 12:22

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Capable of being enabled and capable of being disabled, and for something which you can troll, you can say capable of being trolled.

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Yep! I wish there were a more succinct way to say this, but @mgkrebbs has come up with the best solution that I can think of. – Jonathan Sterling Apr 25 '11 at 3:54

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