Dante Alighieri said
For the record, if Axel hadn't unbanned him, I would have... and I support the banning of him in the first place. Here''s my reasoning:
Banning/unbanning is largely irrelevant in this situation, RK certainly isn't coming back any time
soon.
Not sure of this. He seems to be a tough one. He can cool down
*Banning logged-in users is a temporary emergency
step >and the emergency has passed.
Very true
*Unbanning him in no way says that his behavior is acceptable, it merely respects our process.
Ah ? Well, if you say so, I believe you
We have no procedure to ban logged-in users for any specific length of time. The mandate is in an emergency to protect vandalism. Once the vandalism threat is over, there is no rationale to continue that form of ban.
Fair. Though...I am curious...just how many loggued in users are banned right now ? How long ago was it ?
At this point, the weeks-long consensus that a ban should (or should not) occur takes place and then we have our
democratic >solution. Axel did
not show disrespect to people who were insulted, he showed respect for the Wikipedia process that we all abide by.
Good, I am glad to hear that. Democratic implies of course, that everybody has the chance to weight in.
I disagree with Axel that he never should have been banned in the first place, that was an appropriate step to undertake given the situation. That's just my two cents.
It certainly was a decision not everybody could agree on.
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