Board Thread:Administrator Discussion/@comment-4139585-20141201214729/@comment-4139585-20141207140832

That is kind of a tl;dr sorry.

Honestly, the solution to "we need to ban fewer people" shouldn't be "give people more warnings before they get banned", in fact it should be the exact opposite. The warn-kick-ban system that admins are supposed to use currently is very strict and consistent, and it's harder to take advantage of. For example, in your proposed system, users get several warnings that only stay with them for short periods of time before they get kicked and banned. In this system, they can easily spam several times, then stop for a week to have their warning abdicated, then just go back to spamming for a week. Under the current system, a user can spam no more than twice before getting kicked.

It's also relevant to add that there is nothing wrong with the current system. Our goal for 2015 should not be to block 0 users, it should be to make sure that we only block the users who truly deserve it. We also could better spend our time addressing other issues, such as admin roles.