[WikiEN-l] Brandt unblocked by Jimbo - community support?

[Andrew Gray]

On 19/04/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
> > At that time, nobody in the community was willing to unblock.  And
> > then somebody, with good reason to unblock, did.  It is not necessary
> > to gain community consensus to unblock; the purpose of a block or ban
> > is protection of the encyclopedia from harm, not to express the
> > opinion of the community.
>
> The opinion of the community was that unblocking Brandt was harmful to the
> project.  You seem to misunderstand the community discussion on the
> matter.

Was he blocked "pursuant to the community deciding to unblock him". If
he was, this might be a valid complaint - but we don't require a
community vote every time we block or unblock someone, and I fail to
realise why this case is magically different just because we don't
like the guy.

I don't like Daniel Brandt; he annoys me on many levels. But I don't
think letting him have a user account with which he can edit the wiki,
with a dozen people staring at every move he makes, is in any way
"harmful to the project", and I suspect many people agree with me; the
comments of those who feel strongly over our latest cause celebre
should never be assumed to be completely representative "of the
community"

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk