Forum:Banning

The criteria sounds about right. Just be sure to administer the right dose of discipline; too much will make your fellow users resent you, while too little will make your fellow users treat you with nothingness. In other words, learn when to give a warning, and learn when to use the ban hammer. Don't get too itchy of a trigger finger there.--Pkthis 03:31, September 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Most IP addresses get recycled. The ban dismissal would only be for IPs, to allow those who were blocked because they shared an address with a troll.
 * The talk page thing - based on my own experience, in which I was blocked from a wiki and even my talk page due to a content dispute with an admin, I absolutely do not agree with blocking access to your own talk page in any case. A user confined to their talk page is no longer a danger to the wiki, so if they continue to perform user page vandalism, it can easily be policed. However, if an admin for some reason decides to abuse their power (unfortunately, I've seen it happen on this very wiki, with admins who left before we got here), the wrongly banned user's talk page allows them to state their grievance. It also allows them to discuss their problems with an admin if luck strikes and they want to fix their mistakes. Glorious  CHAOS!  03:51, September 15, 2010 (UTC)