Thread:Nightmare9188/@comment-30185470-20150524150240/@comment-4598272-20150524155107

Also I wrote in a former post, that instantly banning for infinite makes people think you don't think before you ban. There has to be proportionality. As a (soon postgraduate) university law student words like proportionality and effectiveness are a part of my daily life. Infinite bans should only be ultima ratio. Staff almost never bans or blocks for infinite. Sky's last global block was just a week, even though before he was once globally blocked for three months. And staff members are also professionals. Furthermore infinite blocks encourage sockpuppeting or bringing the trouble to other wikis. There are a lot of sockpuppets on Power Rangers Wiki because the crats there often block for infinite, even if there are no good reasons. Also there is saying which is "Don't feed the trolls". We also feed the trolls by unreasonably banning them for infinite and making them result to sockpuppeting or bringing the trouble to other wikis. Thus it is more effective to report them to staff, to get them globally blocked, that they can't harass us on any wiki. And if the troublemakers sockpuppet, we can also ask staff to block their IP.