On 14/10/2007, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Thomas Dalton" wrote
All the information ArbCom would need to judge if an appeal is warranted should already be there. Judging an appeal of a community ban is much harder, since the information is often much harder to find.
I question both these points.
Question whatever you like. If you're not going to supply a counter argument, there's not a lot I can do...
I think the large numerical majority of community bans appealed to the ArbCom are upheld on the simple grounds that the editor wasn't convincing anyone as a good editor before the ban. Now it is certainly the remainder of cases that actually count. It is not that hard to assess whether an indefinite ban is warranted, rather than something of the order of a month, from block logs of an otherwise decent editor, and asking the blocking admin for the story.
Something being easy doesn't prevent it being harder than something else. I was making a comparison, you've only addressed one part of it.