User blog comment:IvyLover/How to give users infinite blocks./@comment-452-20141013015032/@comment-1142365-20141013075617

Anyone who has proven themselves to be troublesome and a detriment to a community has relinquished their right to be a part of that community. Repeat offenders are fair game for permanent bans.

Being an admin for 3 years is cool, I've been one for 5, and I've given plenty of indefinite bans to users who have proven to the community that they have no reason to be within it any longer. Whether it be for repeated personal attacks, repeated multiple account misuse, or abusing user rights that were given to them out of trust, whatever. There are plenty of reasons why indefinite bans are useful. I don't waste the community's time when dealing with repeat offenders.

I implore everyone to never give into the hype that short bans are de facto a good thing, and that permanent bans are always terrible, dictator-esque entities used as nothing more than a punishment. Short ban times are good in some circumstances, permanent bans are good in others. It's not a black and white situation and no text wall is going to show that it is.