Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3184244-20200117005313/@comment-14250-20200118210102


 * about 80%+ of people who complain about abusive admins and their blocks come out looking worse if their claim gets investigated.

That should not necessarily be viewed as a chilling effect. Admins being in the right 4/5 of the time isn't necessarily unexpected.

Most excellent point by Fandyllic though: USE DIFFS. I wish Fandom would get Special:Diff working so we could use shorter double-bracket links.

I don't agree on evidence needing to be recent though. If a user quits in frustration over being abused by an admin, even if they come back YEARS later I think they should be be heard if they can find the evidence of what was done.

It is recommended though to try to log evidence early, since admins' power to delete pages could make it difficult to collect evidence. I think the best case, if there is abuse, would be to archive it, so you can link to it even if it gets deleted later. Archive.is is usually easiest.