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Temporary bans can be extremely effective ways to get the message across without totally alienating someone forever.
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We don't intent to "get the message across".
Good behavior changes shouldn't come from carrot and stick but from conscious change.
We might help someone by explaining to them why there behavior lacks in certain parts, but we ban people because we think that our community is better of without them instead of intending to punish the person and create fear energy that will change them.
If someone doesn't want to be the kind of person that respects our forum rules, that doesn't mean that the person is bad.
On the other hand it does mean that the person doesn't belong here.
Our guiding question isn't "Does that person deserve to be punished?" but "Would our forum be a better place that encourages conscious growth if that person would get banned?"
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I'm surprised that these people don't come back with different usernames, or are they banned by IP
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Some people do come back. It takes a bit of smarts to detect those people and reban them but we manage to reban a few people who reregister.
It starts with the intuition that you think that a certain person might be coming back. You can ask the forum software whether a given person shares the IP with other people who posted something.
Even if you have dynamic ips, you can look up where that IP comes from.
If we would ban someone from Bucharest and a person that creates the suspicion of being the same person starts posting again, we can conclude that it's the same person.