Thread:Sannse/@comment-50.54.243.64-20140621004409/@comment-50.54.243.64-20140623212733

Sannse wrote: Blocking everyone to make it a private wikia is not okay. Wikias are supposed to be open to others to edit, and we don't provide private sites.

However, if someone decided to block others for no reason, just because they wanted to, that is not outside the Terms of Use in itself. It's pretty foolish, and not good for the wikia, but that's a different matter.

If the wikia is well established/maintained, then there will probably be a community there, and that community can protest the blocks. Ultimately, they can get them reversed and the blocker removed. Staff have intervened directly in some cases like this

For small/new/less formal wikias (which are the closest thing we have to personal sites) it's generally best for those blocked to simply vote with their feet and find or make another wikia

Ultimately, you "have a right" to do all sorts of stupid things in life... but it doesn't mean it's the "right thing to do". Yes, if you are an admin you can ban randomly. And no, I don't recommend it.

(note that there are few absolutes in this reply, and a lot of fuzzy mid-points. That's often how things are with questions like this) I know for a fact that wikia is public and everyone to view and edit, but some users can make their sites editable for admins only as long as there's a request page protected for auto-confirmed users to request the rights to be retrieved in order to edit in their wiki.