Topic on All The Tropes talk:How We Do Bans Around Here

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Remember that when you wrote this page, right at the top, you said that these were ''guidelines'', not rules or policy. Guidelines do not lay down hard and fast every possibility, and are not to be adhered to with no exceptions like proper rules. It already mentions instances where admins can use their discretion -- this was a case of that, and no one would call it an abuse of power or the guidelines to have permabanned him.
Remember that when you wrote this page, right at the top, you said that these were ''guidelines'', not rules or policy. Guidelines do not lay down hard and fast every possibility, and are not to be adhered to with no exceptions like proper rules. It already mentions instances where admins can use their discretion -- this was a case of that, and no one would call it an abuse of power or the guidelines to have permabanned him.


In fact, in the interest of protecting the wiki from a a second strike from this bozo in two weeks, I'm exercising ''my'' discretion and upgrading him to the deluxe block with leather interiors, whitewall tires, 8-track stereo, and permanent duration.
In fact, in the interest of protecting the wiki from a a second strike from this bozo in two weeks' time, I'm exercising ''my'' discretion and upgrading him to the deluxe block with leather interiors, whitewall tires, 8-track stereo, and permanent duration.