Thread:3primetime3/@comment-27013614-20160913222752/@comment-5645428-20160914012022

This practice is common and I personally find it futile. There is one thing that a block achieves, and that is preventing a user from editing. If a user isn't editing, which the majority of accounts on any wiki fall under, then there is no point in them being blocked as it serves no active function. How do you know a user intends to edit while they are blocked? You don't, but the chances are that after having blocked them the first time for even a short duration, they will never return again. Therefore, you only ought to block them for a short duration, and if they return, they may do so with ill-intent, or not, and you only block them again if the former is true. With cases of alternate accounts and accounts with inappropriate names, in the majority of instances, they are never used again. Why block them for more than a few days?

Having blocks of infinite duration is just a plain stupid feature with no realistic purpose other than to satisfy the ego of overbearing administrators.