User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Semi-Protected Pages/@comment-743796-20110423223550/@comment-1221773-20110424001445

Regular users are usually well-intentioned and follow the rules, though. The vast majority of vandalism comes from IPs and new accounts. Even if a vandal is patient enough to wait for his account to be autoconfirmed, he can still blocked the instant he crosses the line and all that time he invested goes out the window.