Tech:SRE ToU policy

Enforcement of the Terms of Use is primarily and ultimately the responsibility of Trust and Safety. SRE are able to protect the stability of the service by conducting Terms of Use actions (as opposed to T&S actions) under Section 8. ToU but these must have the intention of being temporary and minimal. Only SRE members with technical roles are able to enact an action under the Terms of Use. T&S must be notified of the action taken as soon as possible, at the latest 24 hours after the action was taken. If SRE wish to consider a permanent restriction, this must be approved by Trust and Safety before. Trust and Safety hold responsibility for auditing temporary actions.

Examples
Here are some practical examples and the how SRE should ideally respond. The main question you should ask yourself when taking action is: is the action I'm taking the least I can possibly do to fix the situation until T&S gets involved?

Example 1: A user is using a bot/automated script to automatically generate a large amount of pages per second which is degrading the service. --> SRE would temporarily block the user and then alert T&S of the behavior and the action taken by SRE.

Example 2: A user attempts to DDOS or otherwise gain access to Miraheze servers --> SRE would globally lock the user and potentially globally block or rangeblock IPs used by the user and then alert T&S of the behavior and the action taken by SRE.

Example 3: A wiki contains several pages which describe how to DDOS or otherwise hack Miraheze servers. --> SRE would delete the wiki (as closing and making it private would still allow its users to access it and harm Miraheze), block or lock any users involved in writing the how-to guides (as they could replicate that information on other wikis) and then then alert T&S of the behavior and the action taken by SRE.