User blog comment:Scorch933/Well.../@comment-5643552-20130906212308

(bit late here, but I'll go ahead anyway)

If a user is repeatedly banned for breaking the rules, a longer ban is usually implemented to get the point across that breaking the rules is bad. The reason it's not written in the rules is probably because no one thought to write it. Does common sense really need to be written? You break the rules, you get punished. You continue to break the rules, you get punished some more. That's just the way things work.