User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20131207065154/@comment-188432-20131207175626

Oh no, it's not a completely fresh start. Perhaps it should be called "Christmas parole" rather than "Christmas amnesty". Block records can't be expunged with any tools available to local admin — and possibly not with any tools available in MediaWiki at all.

In any case, their previous blocks will be there for us to see if that user comes to our negative attention again, and will form a part of the decision for the next blocking. OS25, for instance, is one T:ATTACKS block away from permanent banning, and he'll remain so.