Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Having gone back and read that email, I note that this unblocking was in violation of stated policy and decisions--Jimbo had banned Helga for three months. It may be that your reference to a two-month ban that "should have expired" is part of why nobody noticed that you had, in fact, changed the rules unilaterally.
Ed informed me before you wrote this that he had made a simple error. He misread "three months" as "two months" in the relevant email and thought he was just doing an administrative task that had been previously ignored.
He didn't mean to "change the rules unilaterally".
--Jimbo