User blog comment:CzechOut/Welcoming back the banned/@comment-5558012-20131225032754

This might be an okay idea with larger wikis that have a larger, well-established staff as opposed to those with less active/fewer admin. Even so, I've yet to block someone permanently. I've only blocked one person for a year after they kept making sock accounts to bypass their original block to continue to violate policy, but 90% are less than a month. Even with short blocks, most don't seem to recognize why they were blocked or don't contribute afterwords. Regardless, some wikis would definitely benefit from this as some Admin block for a long time for little things.