"Info Control" wrote
On 4/19/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com
Don't follow. A community ban holds only when it is effectively unanimous, not when it has a consensus behind it. That's a huge practical difference.
Charles
So I understand... if twelve admins say, User:X is community banned, but one admin says, "No, he's really a nice guy, for reasons A, B, C, I'm unblocking," and does... he can overrule them all?
It is more like a jury system. If one out of 12 admins is prepared to make a good-faith unblock, having heard the arguments and looked at the evidence, then there is no community ban.
There may well be a wheel war. That is actually what I meant by a 'huge difference'. A consensus, rather than effective unanimity, can lead to wheel-warring. Ergo, in our terms, these are entirely different things. Wheel wars are detrimental, and so I don't advocate stretching the idea of community sanctions.
Charles
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