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jji7skyline wrote:

It would be good if a Scratch Team or Moderator answered 

Hey jji7skyline, block are usually given when a user continually breaks the Community Guidelines despite being given several warnings, or commits a pretty grave offense (like spamming Scratch with pornography images, for example).

When a block is given it's usually does not have an expiration date, so in a sense, it's already permanent - you might this is weird, but what the Scratch Team wants is for the original account owner (or sometimes even the account owner's parents or guardians) to contact the Scratch Team in order to come to some sort of understanding. If the Scratch Team feels that the account owner understood what happened and will use the account responsibly, the Scratch Team will adjust the ban time or unblock the account; permanent blocks that usually stay in place are extreme cases (like if a user has been blocked before and can no longer be trusted to adhere to the Community Guidelines, and, of course, the oddball case of the commercial spammer).

Also, I have noticed that banned people often move to other sites like Stencyl or Swell Forums 

It's probably because there are other Scratchers on those forums. It's not surprising to see blocked Scratchers moving to other forums or online communities when they disagree to adhere to Scratch community guidelines.

Ok! Thanks!