Forum:Regarding vandals

Last year, Sam opened a forum about directly blocking vandals without the need for a warning. While most users have agreed on this, the forum has become inactive and was closed. Due to this being a serious topic, I'd like to reopen it here. Regular users could give the standard warning to vandals due to them not having blocking powers, but for admins I think that there is really no point in giving warnings over and over to users that come here just to vandalize and purposely disrupt the wiki. For one very minor act of vandalism I'd agree with keeping up with the warning system or give a short block of only 1 day or less, depending on the situation. But in greater cases it's only a few mouse clicks to directly block them for the first time, especially that the talk page warnings rarely work. It goes without saying that these direct blocks are only for vandalism, and not other types of violations. 08:42, October 3, 2015 (UTC)