Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20141102010736/@comment-770155-20141110152633

__ So how many of the people in this discussion have actually read TES:BLOCK?

While I haven't been able to keep a close look on the block logs for the past few weeks, I never felt a large portion of users get mistreated. Nevertheless, I will still react on the topics you brought up.

First time blocks can NOT exceed one week
They don't. As stated in the blocking guidelines.

Talk Pages need to be edited by banned users
This is a good point for discussion: Blocking talk page edits is the default across all of Wikia, and it is preconfigured in the blocking tool as well. Usually vandals or trolls will continue their rant on talk pages. The normal way of discussing blocks is to move the discussion to Community Central where the TES admins as well as other Wikia advisors can have a closer look at the situation. This is also helpful for discussions that span multiple wikias. Users often don't know how to proceed when blocked, so this is a point that can use some extra attention.

Users need to be warned
This is up to the admin, he or she will evaluate the contributor and decide if something can be learned from this situation. Good sysops recognize confused users and they can be helped. But introducing a warning-requirement would be very bad. Internet trolls want all the attention they can get. Warning them is giving them what they want. Trolls should be given no attention at all in order for them to stop.

Progressivly long Blocks
See TES:BLOCK

Only official rules can warrent blocks
See TES:BLOCK

Alts should warrant a higher block
This is called block evasion and also covered in TES:BLOCK

The rules should be enforce EQUALLY to everyone
In cases where they aren't, contact one of the other sysops to discuss the sysop not following TES:BLOCK. This also applies to invalid ban length cases. __