Topic on User talk:HelveticaBold

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 I understand that, as we have a much smaller admin cadre than the other wikis, we may not have the resources to monitor wiki activity proactively and thus have to be reactive to misbehavior after the fact (potentially long after), but crawling through someone's edit history to look for misbehavior is what Wikipedia would call a [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Witchhunt|witchhunt]].  It's one thing to look for and revert bad-faith edits that might have been missed, but I would argue that the review shouldn't be used to inform a decision to extend the block any further -- HB's already been told to cool it (and given some enforced time to do so), so I don't see much point of making it even longer, since whatever bad-faith edits you find will have been made quite some time ago (and apparently did not attract attention at the time).
-I guess you could decide that HelveticaBold's contributions are, on review, so negative that he shouldn't be allowed to return to editing at all, i.e. that the block should be made permanent, but if the model of governance we're going for here is that we're trying to focus on improving the wiki and keeping it healthy, then probably the best way to use blocks is to keep to the principle of protecting the wiki (by permanently blocking spambots and persistent vandals, and occasionally enforcing brief cool-off periods for editors who get a little hot-headed) rather than punishing editors with lengthy blocks.
+I guess you could decide that HelveticaBold's contributions are, on review, so negative that he shouldn't be allowed to return to editing at all, i.e. that the block should be made permanent, but if the model of governance we're going for here is that we're trying to focus on improving the wiki and keeping it healthy, then probably the best way to use blocks is to keep to the principle of protecting the wiki (by permanently blocking spambots and persistent vandals, and occasionally enforcing brief cool-off periods for editors who get a little hot-headed) rather than punishing editors with lengthy (edit: but impermanent) blocks.
 tl;dr: block briefly or permanently, and in a timely fashion; a multi-month block delivered months after the fact probably isn't going to rehabilitate anything.