On 9/30/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
People want examples of how "none of the thousand or so admins wants to unblock them" doesn't adequately describe the "community" ban process? How about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/I ncidents/Blu_Aardvark_and_Mistress_Selina_Kyle
Looks to me like you dug through the entire history of Wikipedia, found one incident a fair number of people might be familiar with, and threw it out onto the floor without any elaboration or supporting arguments...
Whatever point you're trying to make, I'm not sure. Is this a problem that would be unique to a particular system of banning/unbanning? Does this single incident illustrate a persistent problem? Is this anecdote the common scenario or an exception? Is there an alternative system which could reasonably be expected to reduce the amount of histrionics and mitigate the negative impacts of bandwagon politics? What, in particular, are the problems, here, and how might they be fixed?
If we're relying on an anecdote, we may as well explore it a bit to see what information and lessons we can glean from it.
Judging from the tone of your post, it sounds like you have an idea, or at least might be able to answer some of those questions. I'm not quite clear on what idea is, just yet?
-Luna