Uncyclopedia:Ban Policy

This page is considered an ignorable policy on Uncyclopedia. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow, unless they don't want to, in which case they are free to ignore it, in which case nobody will care. Please make use of the standing on one knee position to propose to this policy.

See Uncyclopedia:Ban Patrol, Special:Ipblocklist, Special:Log/block for a current list of existing bans.

Offense	Recommended Penalty	Comments / Rationale
Ban Patrol Disruption	1 week to 1 month depending on severity	Includes deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments.
Blanking	1 week per page	Same policy for articles, user pages, and admin pages.
Creating useless redirects, categories, templates, or stubs	1st: delete & warn, 2nd+: 1-24 hours	Notify users on their talk page.
Edit War / Revert War	1st: revert and warn, 2nd: 1 day to 1 week	Notify users on their talk page.
Harassment	1st: Warn, 2nd: 1 week to 3 months, depends on severity	Notify users on their talk page.
Insubordination	1st: Warn, 2nd: 1 hour to 1 week	Go easy. The point is easily made. A long ban probably should be justified by other behaviors.
Open Proxy	Infinite	Too much abuse potential to be allowed to live.
Plagiarism and copyvios	1st: delete & warn (check it's not about to be sporked), 2nd: 1 week	Notify users on their talk page.
Shock images, tubgirls, goatse links, etc.	1 month	Notify users on their talk page.
Spam (Categorization)	1 hour for first offense	Notify users on their talk page.
Spam (Commercial)	1 week to 1 month depending on severity	Delete pages or links. Pages directed to CVP as applicable. Unregistered users (IPs) will get 1 month to 1 year depending on severity, and/or the offending created page edited so that it makes fun of what was being advertised and/or the way it was being advertised.
Spam (Quotes)	1 hour for first offense	Notify users on their talk page.
Sockpuppets	Based on behavior	See headings for vandalism, voting page disruption, etc.
Spambots	Infinite	Yea, we don't like spam!
Tag tampering (ICU, VFD, etc.)	1st: revert and warn. 2nd: ban. Length depends on tag.	ICU: 14 days, VFD: 1 week to 1 month depending on severity (same as VFD disruption)
Vandalism (major)	1 week per page	Same policy for articles, user pages, and admin pages.
Vandalism (minor)	1st: warn, 2nd: 1 hour to ?	It's to your own judgment what this constitutes: noobish bad edits, user boredom, immaturity, or bad judgment rather than showing intention to do a lot of damage. Notify user on their talk page.
VFD Disruption	1 week to 1 month depending on severity	Includes deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments.
Voting page Disruption	1 week to 1 month depending on severity	Ranting, baiting, excessive off-topic commentary, deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments. Includes the Noob, Writer, Uncyclopedian, or Useless Gobshite of the Month awards, in addition to VFP and VFH.
Anything else	1 second to infinite depending on stuff	Anything that isn't listed above falls into this category.