Tony Sidaway 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.
-Jeff