All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVI

[GethN7]

I think it might be a good idea to quote from one of our policies here.

8. Bans and page locks are for protecting the wiki, not taking sides. Sanctions should never be arbitrary and capricious, and banning users should be a last resort. Temporary locks will be used in most cases; an Edit War is a sign that editors need a chance to cool down, not an excuse to wave the banhammer +12 indiscriminately. That said, yes, you still can get permanently banned from the wiki. But, unless you're a spammer or a lawbreaker, you really have to work at it. Permanent banning is an extreme sanction, used for only the worst cases and not as a way to ensure that administrators always win arguments. We promise that banning won't become an easy way to dispose of someone an admin doesn't like. If we give a ban, we will try to inform the user why they were banned. Instant bans can happen: if you have some sort of censorware installed, we'll need to protect the wiki from poor software that doesn't understand the Scunthorpe Problem. Automated attacks, obvious vandals and spammers are also subject to instant bans.

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Let's be sure that we're following that -- and that we're being seen to follow that -- before banning anybody.

Agreed. Only intend to even consider it if we suddenly start seeing a wall of defacing edits to pages in the Moderation queue and after being told to cease they keep going out of sheer arrant stubbornness. In that case, I will still be giving clear public notice to cut it out before waving the banhammer.