On Thu, 27 May 2004 19:08:11 UTC, "Martin Harper"
<martin(a)myreddice.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
Does this mean
that at the end of the week, he comes back unbanned?
Note that, in the unlikely event that Wik returns after his ban expires, the other
components of the arbitration ruling will still apply. However, there is a broader point.
There are roughly three schools of thought:
A) A ban of one month lasts one month, regardless of attempts at evasion.
B) A ban of one month requires one month of uninterrupted absence from Wikipedia -
any attempt to evade that ban automatically resets the ban timer. Banned users with
poor self-control may end up banning themselves indefinately.
C) Evading a ban is itself a bannable offence - doing so automatically triples the ban
length (after which, (B) applies).
Thanks, that explains it nicely. I was concerned that (C) might require
yet another long process -- in fact, it still looks as if it might -- but
Wik is now extending his ban one day at a time under (B), so the simple
answer to my question is a solid No.
Reservation: The No is as solid as the consensus behind it. But the
precedent looks good.
But I just re-read what you say. The "automatically" and "after
which"
imply that the ban is now 3 weeks, not 1, starting on whatever day he
begins to comply. If I've got that right, I'll shut up, because the
system is _not_ hopelessly tangled in unnecessarily long procedures.
--
Dan Drake
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