abstract
| - Blocking is the method by which administrators may prevent a user account or IP address from editing, uploading images to, and moving pages on the Poptropica Wiki for a fixed period of time. Blocked users and IP addresses may still read articles, but they cannot edit any pages other than his or her own talk page. However, the blocking administrator may revoke a user's ability to do so if the ability to edit the talk page is abused. Blocks are used to prevent further disruption to the wiki. A user may be blocked when his or her conduct causes disruption. Examples of conduct that may result in a block include but are not limited to:
* Vandalism/spam
* Excessive harassment
* Continued disruption
* Inappropriate or offensive usernames However, blocking may not be used:
* to gain an advantage in a content dispute.
* in the case where a block is unnecessary and a warning would suffice.
* as a precautionary measure, unless obvious evidence is given. When a user account is blocked, his or her IP is "autoblocked" so that the user may not make the same edit anonymously or under a different username. Autoblocks to a user's IP address last for 24 hours. Administrators may lift the autoblock on a user's IP address by unblocking the block number associated with the user (this is to protect the user's privacy). A second, rarer type of autoblock is "angry-autoblock". This allows for IPs to be autoblocked for a longer time frame, automatically set to an indefinite period of time. Currently, angry-autoblocks may only be given by the AbuseFilter, an automated edit filter which runs edits through a preset list of conditions to determine if an edit may be harmful or not.
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