Phineas and Ferb Wiki talk:Block policy

Duration length reasons
Since I am the one that is establishing the block duration guidelines, I thought it best to share my reasoning behind those durations. Some of them are based on the "three strikes" rule.


 * Profanity
 * The first offense might have been done just for shock value, to see what kind of reaction they will get. But if they do it a second time, then it becomes more apparent that it is a conscious decision on their part. By the time they do it a third time, there is no doubt that they are doing it deliberately and will continue to do so.


 * Insults and harrassment
 * "No tollerance" policies sometimes degrade into ridiculousness where common sense says it was stupid to enforce it for a particular situation. That's why there's a little more leeway here. However, by the time a third infraction occurs, we're entering the point where there's little doubt that the previous instances were deliberate.


 * Racial slurs, hate speech or sexual statements
 * Racial slurs and hate speech are a detrimental to this community's well-being and hate speech is almost always unrelated to this wiki's subject. Sexual statements are inappropriate for a wiki devoted to a children's cartoon. We don't need any of those here, which is why the block reasons are longer than for profanity. (Profanity really should have similar blocks, but I realize that many people use them as part of their everyday speech. They just spew it from their mouth without noticing it any more.)


 * Pornography
 * Not acceptable on most websites and definitely inappropriate for this wiki, not to mention illegal given that most of the characters are under-age. Best that we get rid of those kinds of people as fast as possible.


 * Inappropriate pictures (non-pornographic)
 * Since it is permitted to include some pictures on user pages that are not about Phineas and Ferb, this should be enacted when a person goes overboard and starts uploading a lot of off-topic pictures.


 * Spam (advertisements, rants against third parties, political statements)
 * Spammers don't care where they post their messages, so we're not going to put up with them. A one year block is usually enough to make them go away permanently.


 * Unacceptable user names
 * Selecting a user name is a deliberate choice by a person. User names that are accidentally unacceptable will be few and far between, typically when the name is offensive in a different language. As a result, we really don't need to see unacceptable user names in the permanent record of who made each edit. Many of these people aren't interested in making this wiki better anyway, just seeing what problems they can cause.


 * — RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 22:17, February 21, 2010 (UTC)

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