Re your block of User Witysmartone Hi just wondering why you only blocked for 24 hours If you look at the contribs that user has failed to make a single constructive edit so far normally that warrants an indefinite block Nothing too mysterious The user was only active for about 40 minutes in all In my experience with basic vandal accounts the duration of the block only rarely makes any difference in practice Most times they never return even after a short block In the event they do return they ll either continue disrupting the project in which case it s easy enough to re block or will contribute helpfully in which case we re better off than when we started in the former case the indefinitely blocked vandal will be quite able to return using another account anyway so the term indefinite can be a bit misleading If there is a danger in this strategy it s in allowing a number of iffy accounts to sit around autoconfirmed but we tend to do that already with a few thousand every day OK thank you for the rationale