On 4/19/07, Info Control infodmz@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.