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Forums: Index > Rin's Travel Agency > Archive > Blocking length, should we have a guideline page?



FFIV-amano rydiachild
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FFIV-amano rydiachild
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FFIV-amano rydiachild

Why do people think policy is bad? Want to prevent arbitration? Know exactly what to do in each scenario? Use policies.

Or guidelines. There's actually not a lot of difference. Or any really, we just tend to use the word "policy" when being more specific, and "guidelines" when being more loose. We're still going to shorten overly-long blocks because of it.

I started to do a "what to do in what scenario" thing here. If that comes to a fruition block policy can be covered there. Or anywhere else, whatever.

Never block after first offense, never block for longer than two weeks on first block if it's for basic vandalism. Be more lenient to the blocking of IPs, never block one indefinitely. There are some cases where users can be, though really only badusername reasons, and I guess being a sock too. JBed (talk) 14:16, April 11, 2015 (UTC)

FFIV-amano rydiachild
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FFIV-amano rydiachild

A lot of vandals make "hit and run" edits. Which means they are on a page on the wiki and think it would be hiiilaarious to edit it and vandalise because they can. Though they don't sit around to respond, or vandalise other pages. Which means they probably wouldn't notice if they were to get blocked but there are times when vandals decide to edit good soon after their first edit.

Really, "penis" edits are the least offensive form of bad faith. Intentionally inputting legitimate-looking but incorrect data and linking to websites are far worse. (A) because it's hard to catch and misinforms our readers, and (B) because websites have images and videos. JBed (talk) 15:00, April 11, 2015 (UTC)

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