John Robinson wrote:
You bet I was heated up, I still am. However, after having read Tim's response and after some discussion I realized it was best to wait until Jimbo could get to the list and read the thread before continuing. Sorry for not bringing that to the list earlier.
I find it interesting though that of all the objections to banning this account I've seen here on the list and on various talk pages have been based solely on procedure. I find nothing anywhere along the lines of "this person doesn't deserved to be banned, this person's not a troll, this person's a fine contributor"; what I mainly see is "we haven't discussed it enough yet."
Procedure is important. At the same time procedure does not mean endless discussion. When a banning proposal is put to the mailing list it is often to a lot of people who have never encountered the accused. It's easy for any two people to work on very different topic areas without encountering each other in a project that's so big. If you're going to use the list to propose a ban you wan't to make sure that the facts are documented, and that you lay them out. If you don't you risk being identified as a whiner.
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