Thread:The Water/@comment-26402117-20160503174802

I want to appeal the length of the ban on Dimbulb on their behalf and independent of them. The point of a ban tries to get someone both a moderately short editing break and some time to think about their prior actions, as you stated here. I think a six month ban is a bit excessive despite his behaviour - could you reduce it a few months? This is taking into account the fact that they got a six month ban immediately for his original submission quality which would end all the way in November.

This amounts to telling the user to either go away for half a year or for all time - and the former is very high amount of time at two academic semesters. The blog they wrote, while incendiary, harassing and fabricated, was motivated by the somewhat extreme nature of a six month ban which I believe to be independent of that blog. Who is to say that they return in that time? Who is to say that they will actually want to return? Why shouldn't any admin permaban or superban everyone who causes any issue with articles on a wiki left, right and center because they have evoked the mod's ire? This is not personal criticism so much as an issue I can be guilty of. I have had a person cause issues with the comments section on my wiki and it really cheesed me off. But I apologized for over-reacting and lifted their ban...and they made good on improving.

The potential to incur blocks of such a length on a wiki for an issue that crops up is actually not a bad reason not to browse or edit there - I have shunned editing Wikipedia for years so I should know. I don't care much for the user seeing as they insulted me as well. Its justice I stand for - which I'd place at a month for the original issue and two more for that blog; trying to harass you on another wiki and deceiving users here into thinking that they're right to not have any ban.  Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs   