On 4/19/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
No. A community ban has always been as Andrew describes it.
Not exactly they evolved out of pure IAR blocks. At that point the there was no real mechanism for removing them. Largely they were used to cover gaps in the rules that have latter been codified. As they became more common the rational of if no admin would revert it is is probably good appeared. Later as more edge cases appeared it become common to do a brief poll of whoever showed up.