OpenCircuits:Policy

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block policy rough draft

The "Block user" dialog links here. I guess we are supposed to some sort of "blocking policy" in place.

What I ( DavidCary ) have been doing recently is: When I see that someone has added more than 5 links in a single edit that have nothing to do with electronics, I block their IP address for 3 months (1 strike you're out). (The majority of such spammy edits add hundreds of links). Also I revert the entire edit -- all of the links added in that edit are deleted, even the links might arguably have something to do with electronics.

While it is tempting to block these spammers forever, I see that the wiki mentioned in the WikiIndex:Blocking_Policy ban for 1 month. The Wikipedia:Blocking policy is to ban for 24 hours on the first incident, longer for repeated incidents.

Is my randomly-chosen "3 months" on the first incident too long? Too short? What about on the second incident?

Your humble sysop, --DavidCary 23:25, 30 August 2007 (PDT)

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