User blog comment:Sannse/How to Block Someone in Your Community the Right Way/@comment-1863003-20160802174842/@comment-417288-20160808041150

On Uncyclopedia, we often get spammers who spam external links in their messages, and on their talk pages (the Uncyclopedia equivalent of a message wall) and input random text vaguely related to the topic. They typically don't even stick around to reply to messages left on their talk pages, and sometimes they are bots rather than real people. We call them spambots. Usually we infiniblock them, since they do not contribute positively to our wiki, but rather their goal is to drive web traffic to a site that they are paid by. It might be vaguely construed that these spambots produce an audience (by producing unproductive search engine results), but they certainly do not provide advertising revenue for our community, nor for Wikia, and the fact that they never learn how to produce good content makes them unwelcome in our community. Likewise, if we had a user who had a YouTube channel promoting Uncyclopedia, but started an unacceptable level of drama in the community, we would have to block him/her, because that would be disruptive to the community, and if we took no action, several other contributors in the community would leave. We try to keep editors on an equal basis on our wiki, based on their contributions to the wiki rather than outside it.