User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Bringing down the banhammer: Best practices for blocking/@comment-1318845-20120316203413/@comment-3474542-20120318015416

While I may not always agree with the actions of of other admins, I always try to avoid unblocking people I didn't personally block, unless the blocking admin is the one asking me to fix it or is no longer available (i.e. - they have been stripped of admin rights or have voluntarily left the wiki).

If I have questions or concerns about a particular block, I will ask the blocking admin why they did it. They may have very valid reasons that aren't immediately obvious, (e.g. - the person has been repeatedly warned under another username, they were being abusive or threatening in chat, the user was vandalizing a linked/sister wiki, they were inserting pornography, or they were spamming malicious links across Wikia).