Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20131003234156/@comment-4620507-20131004001510

WhyAmIReadingThis wrote: ClericofMadness wrote: People are getting banned for months on end for being "rude".

People are complaining and asking if they need to go to staff.

Users are being threatened with three month bans for stuff in chat.

The month ban is far heavy-handed and should be used in the most extreme of cases.

A week is generally long enough to cool off a hothead... If an user has been banned before for the same thing, such as being rude or being an asshole or similar, the logical progression is to give a higher ban, however, the one that is on the immediate scale. Such as a week to two weeks, then to one month, then to three months.

This also applies to any other rule.

I personally have been threatening one user with a long ban recently. However, I have very good reasons for it. By example, not saying names, that user has fifteen past bans, yet doesn't seems to have learned a thing.

I have seen only one case where I have disagreed with a long ban, and it is a ban that you yourself trimmed today, Cleric. Other than that, the actual ban threatenings has been, in nine of ten cases, been controlled properly, and with good reasons backing possible ban threats.

If somebody wishes to go to Staff, then so be it. Personally, as an Admin, I am ready to defend any decision I make concerning to bans or similar, whether it is towards fellow Admins or Staff. I'm assuming that user is me.

Anyways, this post deserves more support, not that it has taken any criticism yet. Week and even month-long bans can turn away users from this wiki.