User blog comment:Bryce53/Interesting! Have you seen this side of the world?/@comment-2225748-20110516124754/@comment-168424-20110516213314

If you didn't respond directly to the vandal, that is good. The less direct attention you give to vandals the better. Vandals should only be told the cold, hard facts related to what they did, like at most "You are banned for some time for # acts of vandalism." If you don't want to leave them a message and just ban them, make sure there is a record of the reason either in the block logs or on some ban/block/vandal tracking page. You want a history of who, what why, and where a ban happened, but you don't want to give vandals and kind of notoriety.