On 8/8/07, Benjamin Hallert ben@vipmail.com wrote:
I've seen a lot of username blocks recently with account creation disabled and autoblock enabled, or a combination of the two. Some of the admins I spoke with said they were doing this on purpose because of 'bad faith usernames'. As these are essentially lifetime bans from Wikipedia (my IP address, while dynamic, lasts months at a time), I think the wording of WP:U should be changed so it doesn't explicitly endorse this, and I'd like some consideration to the idea of avoiding hardblocks for username violations because of the heaviness of the action.
Autoblocks do not perminatly such down an IP.