On Dec 4, 2007 12:36 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
It's ironic that the block of Miltopia referred to in Durova's email, which most likely was a correct one, actually raises more questions of impropriety than the block of !!, which turned out to be incorrect.
I don't know how it could. Jimmy is always talking to people in many venues public and private about Wikipedia. That Miltopia had exhausted some of the communities' patience was clear well before Jimmy acted. The question was whether it was critical mass for someone to issue a community ban and make it stick or not.
My personal opinion was that Miltopia was irritating but not disruptive. But if I had to judge the opinion of the majority of people on every venue I am aware of, on or off wiki, I get the same sense of a consensus that it was time for him to go.
If the ban had been put up for a community ban consensus confirmation or rejection afterwards, I think he would clearly have stayed banned.