Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20140515085613/@comment-1713281-20140611204442

I think I agree with the notion that 30 days for a second offense is a bit much. In fact, when I blocked JackNapier for lifting pages from another wiki, I did a 2 week block, since I felt that he had been around long enough that he knew better. That block was a month ago, and he hasn't been back since.

I would think something like this would be flexible enough to work with our site:


 * 1st offense: Warning
 * 2nd offense: 24 hour block
 * 3rd offense: 7 day block
 * 4th offense: 14 day block
 * 5th offense: 30 day block
 * Any further offense: Either a multiple-month block, or a lifetime ban

Obviously, admin discretion comes into play; if they're blatantly ignoring our warnings, feel free to ramp up the punishments you dole out. If they're young, or just don't quite understand the process, feel free to stick with warnings instead of blocks. The last thing we want is to drive off new people.

I mentioned it during a tangent in an above post, but I think we need a "new editors" packet; a page we can link in the automated welcome page that gives a quick rundown of our big policies for the new users. That way we know every new user will see it, and that they (hopefully) will be aware of the rules as they continue to edit, as opposed to learning our rules via the consequences or trial and error.