User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Bringing down the banhammer: Best practices for blocking/@comment-3210791-20120318213830/@comment-20644-20120319200952

Hi. I've taken a look, and I have a few thoughts. I would eliminate all of the vandal templates and not use them at all. Vandals do what they do to garner attention. Acknowleding them in any way just gives them the attention they're looking for, so if it's obvious that they're a vandal then just revert, block, ignore&mdash;revert their edit, block the account, and then ignore the person.

I'm iffy on blocking templates, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with them, so long as they're not used for obvious vandals (again, because of attention-seeking).

The welcome templates look great!