Forum:Policies and Rules

Alright, so I know we've attempted to do this like six thousand times and none of the forums have ever actually gotten anywhere, so I'm starting a new forum and I'll be getting people's opinions on it or at least trying to with the intent to finish. I've been talking to people who have been reminding me that we need policies here otherwise we actually can't really validly ban people for things that are just "unwritten rules" (which, obviously, I know we had a forum on earlier). Yeah, unwritten rules are okay to an extent but we really do need at least one policy page stating this stuff. Personally, since we already have a manual of style, I feel like the next most important thing is a blocking policy. I think most of the time we admins handle block lengths pretty well but every now and then there's a clear issue, so I propose we think up definite lengths for each offense, etc.

On that subject I feel that for actual users, it should always be Warning -> Short block -> Longer block -> Permanent ban. For IPs that are vandals, the blocks should really depend fully on the offense and we honestly can't really decide lengths beforehand since they get, um, creative. For the most part, though, I thin IPs should only be permanently blocked if they continuously vandalize/etc. and special cases; for the most part, blocks for IP vandals should be relatively short. I'm a little pressed on time at the moment os this is just a couple of random ideas I'm throwing out here, and we very obviously need a lot of community opinion to make this work. If anyone else has any other ideas for policies we need in specific, we can discuss those as well. Anyway, um, discuss. -Minish  Link   17:54, February 20, 2012 (UTC)