Bans and Vandalism

[Antvasima]

Hmm. I will likely have to go through and somewhat reword your draft later, but I unfortunately do not have the available time and energy right now.

Please remind me about this later, unless GarrixianXD is willing to reword their draft on their own, so it makes it visibly clearer that edits that are evidently malicious rather than clueless result in permanent bans unless they are very harmless.

 

[IdiosyncraticLawyer]

Please remind me about this later, unless GarrixianXD is willing to reword their draft on their own, so it makes it visibly clearer that edits that are evidently malicious rather than clueless result in permanent bans unless they are very harmless.

Bump.

 

[Antvasima]

Sorry for the delay. As to why it happened, I won't delve into it.

This is what I have to say about the matter:

Spoiler

When users make sweeping changes to our pages without approval, the staff team will generally issue a warning message and guide them on how to become constructive members. After receiving a warning for such unsolicited sweeping edits, users are expected to adhere to our wiki guidelines going forward. It is important to note that these unauthorized sweeping changes are considered vandalism on this wiki.

For reference, we have general guidelines on how we give punishments for actions of vandalism. Below is a chart outlining the general guidelines for the severity of punishments for users who commit vandalism, based on prior warnings and the severity of the violations:

First Vandalism Offense with No Prior Warnings: A warning is usually issued if the user has no previous vandalism record. If the vandalism is exceptionally severe, such as a major structural alteration or drastically changing a character’s tier, the user may face a ban ranging from 2 weeks to 1 month for their first offence.

Second Vandalism Offense with 1 Warning: Typically results in a 2-week to 1-month ban, depending on the severity of the offence. If the user has two instances of significant vandalism, with the first offence already resulting in a temporary ban, they may be considered malicious by the staff team and face more severe penalties.

Third Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Usually results in a ban of 3 to 6 months, depending on the severity of the offences.

Fourth Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Typically results in a ban of 1 year or a permanent ban, depending on the severity of the offences.

Fifth Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Results in a permanent ban.

All of this is rather applicative for clueless violations and we initially assume the user does not have malicious intentions, if we’re giving penalties according to the general guidelines.

There are undoubtedly exceptions to these general guidelines if the user is shown to have malicious intents and the initial assumption of them being clueless is disregarded:

Extreme cases:

• New or unknown users making irrational changes, such as assigning tier 1 to 0 ratings to characters that do not belong in those tiers, or altering a notably powerful character to an excessively low tier like tier 11.
• Page blanking or deletion upon all the page's content.
• Adding illegal or disturbing imagery that is highly unsettling.
• Inserting, embedding, or uploading malicious files and links.
• Edits that include threats or information that may endanger the safety of other users.
• Uploading or inserting coarse or obscene content, examples being any form of pornography.
• Actions that strictly violate Fandom's terms of service and consequently result in a global ban.
• Any edit that is conspicuously malicious/shown to be harmful in nature.

All of these aforementioned severe acts of vandalism will lead to a straight indefinite ban from the site without any warning set.

Other less severe cases:

• Persistent vandalism requires immediate staff intervention, especially after warnings, which may indicate malicious intent.
• Continuous major vandalism necessitates immediate staff action, especially after warnings, potentially revealing malicious behaviour.
• Inserting or replacing existing content with complete nonsense or gibberish to pages.
• Any edit that shows a user’s malicious intention but is rather mostly harmless in nature itself.

These listed cases are less severe compared to the former but will be given harsher punishment than the general guideline for penalties against rather clueless vandalism. This guideline should not be interpreted that users who commit violations that fall in these cases will be free from a permanent ban, as depending on the severity, the user may be permanently banned nonetheless if their actions are deemed as too detrimental for them to be kept on the wiki.

Hmm. I will likely have to go through and somewhat reword your draft later, but I unfortunately do not have the available time and energy right now.

Please remind me about this later, unless GarrixianXD is willing to reword their draft on their own, so it makes it visibly clearer that edits that are evidently malicious rather than clueless result in permanent bans unless they are very harmless.

Or are you willing to initially modify your draft on your own, @GarrixianXD ? This is an extremely important topic that requires considerable attention from me, and I currently do not have much time at all available.

 

[GarrixianXD]

Or are you willing to initially modify your draft on your own, @GarrixianXD ? This is an extremely important topic that requires considerable attention from me, and I currently do not have much time at all available.

Sorry. Had been busy with University and had only been visiting the forums occasionally. How do you want me to modify my draft? Add new points, reword or both?

 

[Antvasima]

Sorry. Had been busy with University and had only been visiting the forums occasionally. How do you want me to modify my draft? Add new points, reword or both?

No problem.

As I was saying earlier, I mainly want to make it clearer that edits that are evidently deliberately malicious rather than clueless should result in permanent bans unless they are very harmless.

I am also uncertain if your current suggested punisment scale for clueless vandalism is appropriate or not.

@DarkGrath @Mr. Bambu @Qawsedf234 @AKM sama @DontTalkDT @Just_a_Random_Butler @Dereck03 @Abstractions @Celestial_Pegasus @ByAsura @Sir_Ovens @Damage3245 @Starter_Pack @SamanPatou @GyroNutz @Firestorm808 @Everything12 @Planck69

Do any of you have any constructive input here in the last regard?

 

[GarrixianXD]

No problem.

As I was saying earlier, I mainly want to make it clearer that edits that are evidently deliberately malicious rather than clueless should result in permanent bans unless they are very harmless.

Gotcha.

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Preliminary Notes

It is important to emphasize that the general guidelines for punishing harmful edits are based on both the severity of the offence and the intent of the individual responsible. These guidelines should only apply to users whose actions are considered minor enough to warrant punishment under the standard rules or to those who genuinely believe their edits are justified, without harmful intent (an example for the latter: if a user changes Akuto Sai's manga profile to 1-A and provides reasoning for the edit, it may indicate a misunderstanding rather than deliberate vandalism, as Akuto Sai is known to be High 1-A in his Light Novel page on the wiki).

Before outlining the punishment guidelines for harmful edits, it is important to note that any blatant and intentional acts of vandalism will lead to the immediate and permanent ban of the responsible user, without a warning or any hesitation. Examples of such actions include: posting inappropriate, disturbing, or dangerous content, such as pornographic images or files containing malware; completely deleting or almost deleting all content from wiki pages, with this major vandalising act being an example; drastically altering a character's tier beyond the accepted rating, such as changing a Tier 10 character to 1-A, or a Tier 1 character to Tier 11, etc.

More info can be found in the 《extreme cases》 and 《less severe cases》 sections in the parts that explains exceptions from the standard guidelines of punishment against harmful edits.

General Guidelines

When users make sweeping changes to our pages without approval, the staff team will generally issue a warning message and guide them on how to become constructive members. After receiving a warning for such unsolicited sweeping edits, users are expected to adhere to our wiki guidelines going forward. It is important to note that these unauthorized sweeping changes are considered vandalism on this wiki.

For reference, we have general guidelines on how we give punishments for actions of vandalism. Below is a chart outlining the general guidelines for the severity of punishments for users who commit vandalism, based on prior warnings and the severity of the violations:

First Vandalism Offense with No Prior Warnings: A warning is usually issued if the user has no previous vandalism record. If the vandalism is exceptionally severe, such as a major structural alteration or drastically changing a character’s tier, the user may face a ban ranging from 2 weeks to 1 month for their first offence.

Second Vandalism Offense with 1 Warning: Typically results in a 2-week to 1-month ban, depending on the severity of the offence. If the user has two instances of significant vandalism, with the first offence already resulting in a temporary ban, they may be considered malicious by the staff team and face more severe penalties.

Third Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Usually results in a ban of 3 to 6 months, depending on the severity of the offences.

Fourth Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Typically results in a ban of 1 year or a permanent ban, depending on the severity of the offences.

Fifth Vandalism Offense with Prior Warnings: Results in a permanent ban.

All of this is rather applicative for clueless violations and we initially assume the user does not have malicious intentions, if we’re giving penalties according to the general guidelines.

There are undoubtedly exceptions to these general guidelines if the user is shown to have malicious intents and the initial assumption of them being clueless is disregarded:

Extreme cases:

• New or unknown users making irrational changes, such as assigning tier 1 to 0 ratings to characters that do not belong in those tiers, or altering a notably powerful character to an excessively low tier like tier 11.
• Page blanking or deletion upon all the page's content.
• Adding illegal or disturbing imagery that is highly unsettling.
• Inserting, embedding, or uploading malicious files and links.
• Edits that include threats or information that may endanger the safety of other users.
• Uploading or inserting coarse or obscene content, examples being any form of pornography.
• Actions that strictly violate Fandom's terms of service and consequently result in a global ban.
• Any edit that is conspicuously malicious/shown to be harmful in nature.

All of these aforementioned severe acts of vandalism will lead to a straight indefinite ban from the site without any warning set.

Other less severe cases:

• Persistent vandalism requires immediate staff intervention, especially after warnings, which may indicate malicious intent.
• Continuous major vandalism necessitates immediate staff action, especially after warnings, potentially revealing malicious behaviour.
• Inserting or replacing existing content with complete nonsense or gibberish to pages.
• Any edit that shows a user’s malicious intention but is rather mostly harmless in nature itself.

These listed cases are less severe compared to the former but will be given harsher punishment than the general guideline for penalties against rather clueless vandalism. This guideline should not be interpreted that users who commit violations that fall in these cases will be free from a permanent ban, as depending on the severity, the user may be permanently banned nonetheless if their actions are deemed as too detrimental for them to be kept on the wiki.

Given your description of your comment, I assume you want to emphasise and highlight that blatant acts of vandalism strictly results in a permanent ban so I pretty much repeated what I said in the exception section, in the new preliminary notes section I've created at the start of my draft. Honestly at this point, we might as well just give our new guideline against vandalism a name since inferring to that can be confusing, since I've repeated that guideline a lot on my draft without a definite name given to it.

I am also uncertain if your current suggested punisment scale for clueless vandalism is appropriate or not.

@DarkGrath @Mr. Bambu @Qawsedf234 @AKM sama @DontTalkDT @Just_a_Random_Butler @Dereck03 @Abstractions @Celestial_Pegasus @ByAsura @Sir_Ovens @Damage3245 @Starter_Pack @SamanPatou @GyroNutz @Firestorm808 @Everything12 @Planck69

Do any of you have any constructive input here in the last regard?

Iirc, AKM and DT has approved my draft before I modified it at your request.