User blog comment:IvyLover/How to give users infinite blocks./@comment-452-20141013015032/@comment-3247345-20141013065138

@452 By crowd I mean most people here seem to believe that. It's certainly one way of handling things that obviously works for some people (or they wouldn't be doing it). I'm just not a fan of the way some of the comments here about it are worded. As @JosephHawk said there's no one right way to handle things and I don't like the degrading comments posted by some of the users here about a legitimate way to do things even if they disagree. Personally I think it's preventive if they've returned after a temporary block and repeated the same behavior or they've been pulling the same crap across Wikia. It does no harm to get rid of someone indefinitely who's obviously not on the wiki to help and they can always request an unblock if they decide to be constructive. It seems like most of the users I indef end up getting globally blocked as cross wiki vandals. Not to mention I've been dealing with a serial vandal with a sock farm who keeps returning under various accounts to pull the same crap. This has been going on for at least 6 months and multiple temporary blocks haven't done anything to stop it. So I indeffed him not too long ago. And now he's doing what he did on my wiki to other wikis that haven't indeffed him. For whatever reason some users simply don't stop after multiple temporary blocks. Sadly I haven't had the experience of others here where vandals just go away after short blocks. I'm with you 100% on IP blocks though. Only block those as long as necessary since they tend to switch to innocent users after some time.