User blog comment:Sannse/How to Block Someone in Your Community the Right Way/@comment-1251315-20160801155433

Completely agree on the need to block appropriately. I have come across numerous sysops on wiki's who are very trigger happy with the block tools (reasons I've heard include: "they registered to spam the wiki, so to hell with warning them", "the user did something bad on another wiki", and "CheckUser said the user was a sock, so it must be true") and seem to abuse them in a way that is not conducive to a proper wiki environment.

The advice for getting sysops demoted is all fine and well, but there are many communities who seem very hostile to the idea of demoting sysops, outright just ignoring threads about dealing with bad sysops entirely or making it very clear that even if a sysop was absolutely horrible and totally misused tools, they would not demote them if they personally liked them.

It's true Wikia doesn't intervene in such things. But Wikia needs to do more to deal with communities being run in a non-community manner or being hostile towards those who are actually trying to improve communities and receiving hostile treatment from others for no reason.