Admin Forum:Was I right

I really couldn't think of anything else to call this. I'm a bureaucrat on the PokéFanon wiki, and I recently blocked a friend of mine because he constantly bugged me about things. After he got experienced enough I promoted him to a temporary admin, while my computer first started acting up, hoping it would satisfy his questions about adminship. He then reverted edits to my own page, so I demoted him to rollback and blocked him for 2 hours, then promoted another friend of mine in his place. That caused an uproar, and he kept bugging me to demote her, so I gave him a strike for harassment. Strikes are like a substitute for blocking a user when you think the user deserves to still edit, but when a user get 3 strikes, they're blocked for 3 times the sentence because it is effectively 3 blocks. 'Bugging' or 'annoying' a user counts under the harassment section of our rules. He then kept bugging me, but he was already everyone's friend and even created a really important page, so I gave him a second strike for harassment. Today he bugged me again about be demoting him from rollback and banning him from chat, even though that's the standard for 2 strikes, slowly blocking the user. I told him that he was pushing it, and warned him that I could block him for 6 years, currently, and I could also give him a third strike. He just kept pushing it, and he finally pushed me over the edge, so I blocked him for 9 years. The standard for one harassment w/ warning is three years, and I multiplied that by three and fully protected his talk page and other pages that he owned. Now all of his friends are angry at me.

All I want to know: Should I have blocked him? Universal 00:32, September 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it's best to keep personal life separate from wiki life, not that any of the people I know IRL edit wikia anyways :p. Anyway, I feel that the 9 year ban is going a bit too far, in my experience I feel that the best ban for harassment like this would be a maximum of 1 month, or removing the user's rights e.g. rollback. —ฬ ђ tคlк 00:43, September 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * If your policies are clearly written out, were agreed on by the community, and you followed them, I don't see a problem with the block, but 9 years does seem excessive if the person was a good contributor in the past. On WoWWiki, a cabal of admins conspired to ban a user forever and I disagreed, so I took a 3 month hiatus (sort of like banning myself, ironically). -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 23 Sep 2011 11:06 PM Pacific


 * I didn't know him IRL, it's a long story. My wiki friend, who had a pretty long hiatus, referred him to take over his work. The first time that I blocked him for 2 hours, my old friend came and bugged me about him in wikia chat, and caused the whole wiki to go in temporary turmoil, because he supposedly was going to 'hack' the wiki. He then apparently put a virus on the wiki, and supposedly the person (before I blocked him) killed the virus, which put many doubt in our minds. But now, apparently the person that put the virus on is in jail. Usually if a user refuses to stop something after a user repeatedly told them, they're blocked for only three. But since I used the strike system, and he harassed people 3 times, he was blocked for 3 times as long. He was a good contributor, but he was a little...disruptive, lie-y and boast-y. Universal 15:19, September 24, 2011 (UTC)