Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-28236282-20160925073054/@comment-26403549-20161006012926

I should probably address some of this.

Blocks
I agree with Nusdan here, blocks are most definitely a punishment. While they may not encourage friendly activity, they do help to keep malicious users off the wiki. The problem is that there's not really a way to completely remove someone from the wiki; they can always make "70 alternate accounts", change their IP address, message users on a different wiki, and make YouTube videos (which you should completely ignore, by the way; they're certainly not worth your time). However, I believe there are certain cases in which a block should be forgiven. Sometimes, a user will contribute to the wiki and be well-liked by the community, but one day he or she will do something incredibly stupid and get blocked for it. In this case, the user should be encouraged to positively contribute to the wiki once the block is over. On the contrary, there are sometimes users who get blocked because they are clearly malicious users and do not have any intent of positively contributing to the wiki. I believe it makes sense to block these users infinitely; what is the point of seeing them again if the only thing they do is cause problems?

It should also be noted that a lot of drama comes from punishments being escalated. Many times, I've seen a user receive a relatively small chat ban, only to dramatize it and escalate it to a one-month-long block. If you get banned from the chat for 2 hours, accept it. You could use a break from the wiki anyway.

Discord
I believe I've made my position clear on this. I don't go on Discord much, but anything that happens there should stay there. I cannot stress this enough. According to Nusdan, Discord is the source of a lot of pointless drama that happens here. Not bringing it here would mostly solve that problem.