On 4/19/07, Info Control <infodmz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's really more a question of what is Jimbo's authority in this matter
relative to the decisions of other admins.
Well, Jimbo was able to do this because he has been able to give good
reasons, and a lot of editors trust his judgement enough to give him
the benefit of the doubt.
To say that I'm not a fan of Daniel Brandt would be an understatement.
However as long as he isn't disrupting Wikipedia there is no reason
to re-assert the block.
A purported "community ban" has been asserted by some editors, but
community bans only operate insofar as no administrator is prepared to
unblock, after contemplating the matter, the banned editor. Jimbo has
been in discussion with Daniel Brandt and several other administrators
have co-operated on the technical side of unblocking Brandt, which
turned out to be quite difficult, so no community ban applies at this
time.