Blocking someone like joe_fish is suspicious. I have never experienced him anything other than helpful, friendly, always responds to questions and tags ect. He has done a lot for this site, and I’d like to emphasize that blocking someone like him decreases the data quality on iNat. Frankly, without him the mediterranean corrals would be a mess.
On iNat I am strictly against the blocking function because the odd abusive guy will get banned anyway, so the blocking function is mainly there to stop clever people from telling you that you IDed something wrong. Petty.