User blog comment:TheNegativeKid/Unknown People editing Website/@comment-3058214-20110108003712/@comment-961279-20110108034730

Actually, it isn't three bad edits and they're banned. It takes repeatedly making the same kinds of edits after being blocked a few times in order for them to prove that they are deliberately causing problems. That's why we have a Block policy.

Regarding the question of "what if the anonymous user is Swampy Marsh not logged in", if necessary, we can do some research and determine if this is the case. That's what happened last year and that's how we determined it was not Mr. Marsh.