Resolution to refrain from blocking spam accounts

Fragment of a discussion from Village pump/en

Ah, now I get your point. There is no doubt that their edits should be stopped, so I think that we won't have any harm on doing it. Maybe you are worried about flooding recent changes with block log or about the time that users would have to spend by blocking accounts (those are the only issues I can imagine). However, when we block them, we avoid more account creation (due to autoblocks) and prevent any further edit, which might be useful in case they change their edit pattern to another not filtered. Just some thoughts.
Anyway, it is a good question. (Happy new year to everybody)

TeleS (T M @ C S)22:43, 31 December 2011