Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5172448-20180512204912/@comment-1370845-20180512214511

The primary reason for the rule, which was grandfathered from the IRC, was generally speaking that most users who were banned on IRC for flaming/spamming/whatever would often harass users on the wiki once not allowed on the IRC anymore. Therefore, we elected to put in the rule to stop trolls from doing that, because we shouldn't have to wait until a troll does something on the wiki to avoid harassment.

However, there may be cause to replace the rule with a less strict rule that bans on the Discord equating to bans on the wiki just be handled on a case-by-case basis instead.