User blog comment:CalzoneManiac/A New Adoption Amendment/@comment-31924693-20131009140728

I don't think this proposal is a good one, particularly the last bit wherein any block means an automatic ban from becoming a bureaucrat; the present system, where Wikia staff intelligently appraise the requester's track record, is far more sensible. After all, there can be false and malicious blocks (such as the one imposed on me by the founder of one of the The Casual Vacancy wikis, for "intimidating behaviour/harrassment" meaning that I protested his/her spamming the TCV page of the Harry Potter Wiki with the link (adding it three times instead of once, and in the process deleting the one already there); behaviour which to my mind is contrary to the wiki ethos). Such blocks should not be obstacles to adoption.