Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3184244-20200117005313/@comment-366087-20200123143152

The crux of it all boils down to the blocked user feeling they were done unfairly.

When I first got very active with Villains Wiki, I found a lot of characters I felt did not fit the term "villain". I found the rules supported most of that. I contacted an Admin and discussed it with them, they instructed me, "tag for deletion the ones you feel don't belong". I said there were a lot and I'd probably be seen as a vandal, they said, "just go for it".

Before I'd tagged 20 pages, I was blocked as a vandal, albeit not by the same admin. Took me 3 days to clear that mess. 6 months later I was an admin there myself.

So it is not always a BAD admin which is the cause. Misunderstandings happen, and for the most part blocks are deserved. Are some admins overly enthusiastic with the length of blocks? Yes. But Admining a mile in their shoes may show ALL the disturbances they have to deal with and an insight as to why they are trigger happy; how many vandals and trolls do they deal with in a week? Month?