Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-691135-20130621135703/@comment-691135-20130623031113

Aldo The Fox wrote: What if the people who are making the mistakes are new users who don't know the rules? Then you're punishing everybody for a rookie mistake.

He has a point there.... you may want to relax that stance a wee bit. If the person in question has done it before, then by all means go ahead and block them.

But if the person is a newcomer give them a warning first. If they don't understand because English is thier secondary language then use a text conversion tool to put the warning in thier language so they understand.

Nearly all (if not all) of the people making the mistakes are people who've done it dozens of times. Since they've been warned, threads deleted, etc and still not learned - now they will learn as their wiki-editing privileges are removed. In all likelihood newcomers probably will get warned first, but keep in mind that it isn't fair to let a newcomer off the hook while repeat offenders get blocked. If I have to do it for one, I have to do it for all.