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Each member of DWG can block a user from editing for up to 96 hours; such blocks are issued at the discretion of the acting DWG member and do not require prior discussion in DWG. Such blocks may be used as a warning against users who cannot be reasoned with, or simply to instate a cool-down period in an edit war that threatens to escalate, or a means to give DWG members time to investigate a conflict.
 
Each user block is accompanied by a public blocking message. All blocks are [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks publically listed].
 
A DWG member can lift any existing block at any time, although usually only the person who created the block will consider lifting it, and lifting blocks is unusual since they expire rather quickly anyway.