<p>(to give a bit of info about block usage) the lengths I normally use are:</p>
<p>0 hours (as a "message that needs to be read before continuing to edit").  On a per-human-user basis, by far the most common.</p>
<p>4 days (often used for sockpuppets and "please email the DWG before continuing")</p>
<p>1 day and 2 days - used to enforce "cooling down"periods.</p>
<p>1 hour - very rare - used sometimes to indicate to paid mappers that we do really mean business and yes, they really should do what we have asked them to do.</p>
<p>Going forward I'd expect I'd mostly use any blocks longer than 4 days alongside a message "please email the DWG before continuing" and to interfere with vandalism rather than a "difference of opinion about how to map".  There always needs to be a "way back in" even for people who have been guilty of bad actions in the past.  Currently (when dealing with determined sockpuppets of vandals) its a pain to keep rolling forward 4-day blocks until they can be banned (as an example, all of those at the top of <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/blocks_by" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/blocks_by</a> started out as 4 day blocks).</p>

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