I like your observation from 2009. I agree with you. The power to block someone is too easy and should not restrict people from adopting Wikis. For example, if someone makes a "Kermit the Frog" wiki, and thinks Kermit it awesome, and I post something non-awesome about Kermit and get banned for it (even though it wasn't vandalism) why should this prevent me from adopting a wiki about Miss Piggy? See what I mean? +y@talk 04:38, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
I've made a similar point before, I hope Wikia takes note. Wikia should check why a block happened before deciding whether a user can adopt a wiki. Proxima Centauri 07:50, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
I agree. It's even possibly to block someone from a wiki who hasn't even edited on that wiki before, like to pre-emptively stop troublemakers from entering them. I just tried that out on someone who gave me a bad block actually :) You know it's got me thinking of a form of protest... what would happen if someone made a wiki and blocked EVERYONE? Wouldn't that disqualify all people from adoptions? That would really be only to make a point that it's wrong to disqualify blocked people from adopting though. The biases people suffer under bad administration should not cancel out the hard work they do building other wikis that need it. If you think about it, this is a power consolidation thing: people who have the ability to block others could prevent people from adopting wikis they wanted to adopt themselves. +y@talk 07:57, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
Several users are concerned that users who have been blocked on one wiki shouldn’t automatically be prevented from adopting a different wiki. I’m also concerned over political and religious/atheist wikis. Sometimes the only to keep wiki on a controversial subject to the viewpoint the wiki represents is to block users with different viewpoints. At the same time users shouldn’t be prevented from adopting wikis because they’ve written something controversial in a responsible way that opposes the viewpoint of a controversial wiki.
if a user has been blocked somewhere on Wikia please check who the block happened and whether the blocked user behaved responsibly before deciding if that user is fit to adopt a wiki. Proxima Centauri 09:09, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
Hm, last time someone did that it got moved to the talk page though, so if it disappears I'd check Community_Central_talk:Adoption_requests for it. The original discussion you started was here so yeah that's where it went last time. BTW how come you said users plural? +y@talk 09:25, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
Staff do normally check - and if you give an explanation in your request you'll probably be ok. It's really just a measure to stop vandals from adopting and then vandalizing.
