User blog comment:Dan67/Requesting a Behavior report/@comment-8-20131118190409

Yes, it's correct that we only talk to the person concerned about global blocks or account disables (except in very rare circumstances)

The main reason for this is privacy. The most common reason for accounts to be disabled is that the user in question requested it. We also block and/or disable accounts for many other reasons, including breaking the Terms of Use by adding offensive or illegal content to Wikia, signing up when underage, or making threats to other users. In some cases, all of this may happen on one wiki, while another wiki considers the person a good contributor.

As a random example of why we keep things private: imagine someone who has a good reputation on one wiki, and knows several users off-line or on other sites. Then staff find out that they have created a very inappropriate wikia. We need to remove them from Wikia (permanently or for a while), but it's certainly not okay for us to tell all their friends about that other wiki, and damage their reputation off-line.

And another: If someone is under 13, we have to block them to comply with US law. Giving out information on their age would definitely be the wrong thing to do. That's private information and we would not be part of spreading that further!

And, of course, it's only going to cause more speculation if there are just a few cases we won't discuss... so we have a blanket policy of not talking about the details of block. We may need to block people, but we aren't also going to gossip about them.