Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25855974-20160806034121/@comment-26037236-20160808204134

Socking by itself is not against the rules. It's vandalism or constant harassment that gets them banned. I've seen staff give out many warnings to users who continue to break rules, only for them to be ignored. If users apologize not knowing that making an account is against the rules, that will be taken into consideration by staff.

You say that it is a fault of teenagers who break rules. I didn't break website rules as a teenager and get banned anywhere. A lot of teenagers respect the rules, and adults can be bad too. I read the rules and respected them. They already do get warnings for breaking rules anyway.

You say that there is a popular demand. What demand? The only people who I see complain can be easily proven to have broken rules, and the majority have a stack of warnings or are blocked on many wikis already. Even that doesn't meet the requirements of a global block! (The only easy global block is underage, and that is only because of legal reasons, it isn't Wikia's choice. This is because children aren't safe and aren't smart enough to keep their private info private.) If anything, I've seen more people want stricter rules, not more lenient.

Why is it flawed? What makes them corrupt for implying their own rules which users have agreed to? The blocking system in my opinion should be expanded outside of just WikiMedia projects. The concept of banned users simply being allowed back in is wrong in my opinion, which is what most other websites do.

You are intitled to your opinion, but you need to say why you are correct in order to convince people to change a system that has been in place, and is considered by the vast majority to be correct.