Slim Virgin wrote:
The problem is that he *is* engaging in behavior that would normally get someone blocked. He's posting libel off-wiki, he's trying to out people, he's trying to find out where people live. He hasn't stopped it; he hasn't taken those posts down. That would normally get him blocked. Yet you've said that reblocking him would be a bad idea, without saying what will happen to any admin who does it.
Well, give me a few days to talk to him about all these issues and hopefully they can be resolved. In the meantime, the unblock is a show of good faith on my part.
It's not a question of holding grudges. My guess is that if he were to take all that material down, apologize, and promise not to restore it, the community would forgive him, perhaps not immediately but soon enough.
I will ask him if he is willing to do that. I suspect he would want some apologies too.
But you wouldn't want to see Amorrow or Sollog (or anyone) unblocked while they still had personal material about you and your family on their websites, no matter what promises they made. You wouldn't call opposition to those unblocks "holding grudges," just basic common sense.
Depending on the circumstances, I would support unblocking anyone.
--Jimbo