Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150123170900/@comment-4189499-20150125114300

In my opinion, a perma-ban should only be used for particularly persistent, extremely detrimental users. Even a block of one month is extremely long in real terms. I mean, the wiki itself is only 2 years old! Why is anyone handing out blocks that last even 9 months? 6 should probably be the max under normal circumstances, and most vandals won't return if you give them only a week off. Shorter blocks also doesn't hurt user morale as much, as somebody who gets a week off is less likely to sock puppet and vandalise than somebody given 9 months off. The sentence must match the crime, but often it doesn't, being much too long. In the case given above, using only the info given above, that user didn't deserve any more than a sharp "Oi, play nicely" on their message wall, definitely not a block of any length. The block button should only be used in extreme circumstances of repeated, detrimental behaviour, and only for shorter time periods as a punishment to prevent repeated behaviour but not as a deterrent from editing. But that's just my opinion.