Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-46091064-20200615220033/@comment-25014407-20200615224117

For the record, there is no standard of both blocking and warning users across all wikis, so saying "the three-strikes rule is stupid" could be very much referring to a single wiki where this is policy (or something you assumed). Still, admins are allowed to block for anything, and it is their own interpretation of good faith to decide how long the block is going to be. Some individual wikis do have a guideline for block lengths, as a means of consistent blocking by all admins, but this is definitely not the case for most wikis. A lot is also depending on the first impression, if the first edits of someone are even slightly vandalism, a usual case is that they get a longer block, or most edits after that will be seen as non-constructive. A lot of veteran admins also try to determine a block length based on the willingness to chance: if the blocked user is not able to change his intentions within a few days, the block will be longer.