<DIV>Actually I think you're wrong. It has accomplished something. It's accomplished a lot of frustration and the withdrawal of many good editors, and left the asylum in the hands of the inmates.</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Gareth Owen <wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">It strikes me that the only (partially) succesful rehabilitation of a<BR>troublemaking user (Lir) came through a ban, rather than any "arbitration."<BR>The addition of a layer of committees and bureaucracy has not, as far as I can<BR>tell, achieved anything of any note.<BR>-- <BR>Gareth Owen<BR>"It's not a human or civic right to edit wikipedia."<BR>-- kq cuts to the core of the banning debate<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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