Fangs Wiki:Blocking policy

Blocking is the method by which administrators may technically prevent users from editing. Blocks are used to discourage whatever behavior led to the block and encourage a productive editing environment, while also preventing further damage or disruption.

Acceptable reasons
Accounts and addresses may be blocked for:

Unacceptable reasons
Accounts and addresses may not be blocked for:
 * Disagreeing with an administrator; this is conflict of interest

Duration of blocks
Each administrator blocks at their own discretion. Other administrators should lead by example and assume good faith of other administrators' decisions, and not revert a block without discussion. However, the following should be kept in mind:
 * In general, the first block for a minor offense should be of a relatively short duration (i.e 2 hours).
 * Successive blocks for the same offense should be longer than previous blocks (1-2 weeks).
 * Permanent blocks should be a rare case, even for grave violations. This is assuming vandalizers are just short-comers, wherein by a 2 hours block (or no block at all) they would not come back again, just like a permanent block, or with a chance that they might return reformed instead. On the contrary, if they come and vandalize consistently every 2 weeks of block, that would then escalate to a permanent.


 * See also
 * Project:Wiki rules