Thread:Spike144/@comment-25404524-20160326062055/@comment-4795804-20160327094925


 * In general

We didn't directly forbid this kind of threads, though they mostly attract immature users who don't do any mainspace edits and they only offend each other. Problems happen when these users start to do things that affect other parts of the wiki.


 * About the case you mentioned

People lost interest in the "Ban the person above you" thread after some time, so the negative activity naturally disappeared with one exception: TOTMGsRock. He recreated the thread, and he was the main contributor there. After some time, the thread became inactive again, but he revived it again when it it had been inactive for several weeks - this was the necroposting, i.e. reviving old discussion which has been already abandoned.

He revived the thread and then he reported it in the "report user conflict" thread which was like a provocation as he had been the only contributor in the past weeks there.

He also posted several immature comments in pages about strategies together with immature comments in edit summaries, and also vandalized some page by adding nonsensical categories there - these actions were the main reason of the block.

When his block ended, he started to comment discussions abandoned in 2012, so was blocked again.