Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20131204180539/@comment-366087-20140128043612

King Marth 64 wrote: And besides that, is the Blocking isn't allowed to use it for punishing for good faith users and for hating a user that you don't like, its only allowed to use for is only for vandals, spammers, harassers, under age users, and sock-puppetry, correct? Speaking as non-Staff, but as a multi-wiki administrator…Blocking should not be used for personal agendas. It should be used for all that you said, although sock-puppetry has varied local policies as not all uses of it are for evasions.

I shall point out there also comes a point were even good faith edits begin to cross lines of local acceptability. For example, wikis concerned with a franchise's canon, continuously editing in fanon speculation can be against the local policies. And vice versa, editing conflicting canon details into a fanon-centric wiki can be just as verboten.

I recently was promoted to a wiki, and had to initially dole out 1 and 2 hour blocks to "correct" certain bad practices the local community had developed. Granted they had developed due to extensive targeting and traffic from trolls, but they were still bad habits. Took about two weeks to clear both the vandals and the bad habits. Now the wiki practically purrs…

Things like that is why Staff tends to stay out of local affairs. Sort of the same way the UN does not rush to interfere with the affairs of countries. It has to take the outcry of local communities to warrant their attentions.