User blog comment:Hockeyben/Adminship/@comment-2225748-20110404084725/@comment-168424-20110406164553

Even most perma-bans allow editing of a user's talk page by the banned user, if they get around to try to excusing their actions. I've been watching user behavior for years now and users who use their first contribution to do vandalism almost never come back to do any productive editing. Spammers can be more innocent, if their spam is at least related to the topic of the wiki.