Forum:Regarding Blocking guideline + images

Ever since we started the image project we've been a lot harder on users that are uploading poorly named, unlicensed and poor quality images, but one issue remains, and that's how to punish them. As it stands I've been banning them for a day on their first offence, after several warnings of course, and then 3 on their 2nd (I've not yet had to go past 2). I feel this is something that needs to be looked into because some users, such as User talk:Andi322 seem to have more warnings then bans, as such I'm proposing that something be added to the guidelines about when to ban a user and how long for. Also note I have spoken to a Wikia member about a "Ban from upload" option, however I got the response "I could do that, but I refuse to" so such an option is not available, we will only be able to ban normally. 19:35, July 22, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Support warning a user 3 times and then banning - that should be the same rule when dealing with vandalism as well. Would give a user a few chances in case they don't understand/don't get the message. And continuing after a few warnings should warrant a ban anyways. -- 19:41, July 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * Question How long should the first ban be? After all, banning takes away editing privalages as well. Vandalism is a ban for editing, while image uploading is filespace exclusive. 19:44, July 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * If it involves licensing, it should be the standard 3 days. Licensing is a rather serious thing, as Cod4 stated below. As for a bad image, then that should just be around 2 days, as they've been warned to upload better images previously. -- 19:47, July 22, 2012 (UTC)

Comment - Sactage mentions that we need to enforce image licensing for legal reasons (obvious) and such, we should ban those who ignore warnings given to them. However these bans should be very short, like 30 minute-1 hour bans to start with. I agree with what Sactage says. 19:42, July 22, 2012 (UTC)

Support- We should give them at least one warning depending on the problem, and then if they do it again, we should do what COD4 said and give them 1 hour of banishment, and then increase how long the ban is the more they do it (ex: 1 hour, a day, 2 days, a week etc etc) until they get a permanent ban. -- 19:48, July 22, 2012 (UTC)