Crest of Xia Wikia:Banning Policy

Bans are an administrative action at stopping violations by a user. These will typically occur when a user violates the Rules of Conduct. Only staff members are allowed to assign bans or issue warnings. You are usually given a warning before you are banned, and the number of warnings you are allowed to get before getting banned varies on the severity of the offense. If the violation is more serious such as phishing, violating federal laws, or using offensive usernames, accounts will be Fegel-banned without any warnings. Users with bans are still allowed to view pages and reply on message boards (if the banning admin has not chosen to restrict use of their talk page), but cannot move, edit, or create any.

Ban levels
Users who violate the Rules of Conduct will receive one of these reprimands:
 * Reminder: These are typically assigned to new users and minor violations of the Rules of Conduct. No account suspension occurs.
 * Warning: These are assigned for more deliberate violations of the rules. No account suspension occurs.
 * Temporary ban: These are assigned if a user has ignored multiple warnings. Temporary bans usually last from a period of 24 hours to 6 months.
 * Fegel-ban: These are assigned after multiple temp-bans or the user has violated federal laws. Fegel-bans are permanent and do not expire. Although it is against the rules, they are usually worked around with a sockpuppet.
 * Poison ban: This restricts the user from editing on all Drillimation gaming wikis, only assigned in severe cases if the user abusively used multiple accounts. This is Drillimation's harshest punishment, as poison bans are linked to the IP address of the banned user. Although it is against the rules, there are two ways around it: either use a proxy or other method of changing an IP address, or log into an account who is not linked to the IP of the poison banned user.

Sockpuppetry
Sockpuppet bans are typically assigned to users who have logged out of their account and edited anonymously or created another account. It is hard to capture sockpuppet accounts, but are usually easy to notice if they have a username that has any of the following:
 * (username)isback
 * (username)2
 * Super(username)
 * (username)again

Appeals
If a user believes they were unfairly banned or want their editing privileges reinstated, they will have to type the text  below a ban message.

Trivia

 * Sometimes bugs in Wikia's servers can ban you for no reason. Contacting Wikia can sometimes lift the ban.
 * It is possible for users to get banned on Wikia's top communities after the first hours of an update, due to the number of bugs that might be present. This is usually rare, because most of the bugs are crushed and the users who were affected get unbanned.