Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24577221-20160520232429

We've got a user who is a bit of a problem. I don't think that he's acting out of malice; I truly believe that he just can't tell a good edit from a bad one, despite many attempts to educate him. His pattern is to do lots of tiny adjective changes, especially colour words but sometimes other descriptors, and he seems to think that words are interchangeable if they're together in a thesaurus... or something like that. The result is that about 2/3 of his changes are destructive and have to be reverted. And given the chance, he's very active, which makes him a pain for the admins and others to keep on top of.

He has been blocked a number of times, with the period escalating. Until recently, I've permitted him to continue to post on his own message wall, in the hope that we could get him to understand how we need him to change. But now he has been posting a lot of silly questions on his wall, apparently just to continue posting something. So I have revoked his privileges there, initially for one week, now for three because he went right back to the same nonsense as soon as he was able.

Thing is, I don't want to have to remember to loosen the restriction in three weeks; I also don't want to change the original block such that he'd regain editing access when the time-out is done. Ideally, I'd like to keep the several-month editing block and add a 3-week time-out from his wall, with the restrictions ending automatically. Is there any way to do that? 