User blog comment:Sannse/Why staff don't remove bad admins/@comment-1038387-20140226090049/@comment-168424-20140308154546

This story is also only half the story. Many a user has been blocked, but doesn't know any way to appeal the block or reduce its duration. Many good contributors are lost this way, because an admin is too quick to pull the trigger or too inflexible to see another side.

Sometimes the problem is that blocking is too easy and admins don't think about what it means to the user being blocked.

All that said, there are some users that can be blocked without compunction (flagrant vandals, spammers), but they rarely try to appeal their blocks.