Daniel Mayer wrote:
I say a 24 hour block would be a good place to start.
Jimbo doesn't seem to be
monitoring the list right now so he is probably the bottleneck. So I don't
know if he would support even a temporary block at this point.
I was out for the weekend, but I'm back now. Also, I was hiding from
the DW issue, hoping that it would sort itself out without me. :-)
If this were a voting situation then I vote for the 24
hour block. But I'm not
sure if this is such a situation. We did form a new policy to more strictly
enforce our etiquette policy, no? Does this mean an individual Admin can
decide, needs to have confirmation by one other, two others, the whole list,
Jimbo, what?
I don't think any policies have changed, actually. And in terms of
blocking ips, we're only supposed to block outright vandalism, unless
after a long and agonizing process, I issue an edict otherwise.
Someday we might loosen this, or institutionalize it rather than keep
it with me, or even abolish it (doubtful, because it does seem to be
necessary in some rare instances).
What I really very strongly want to avoid is the use of banning in
content fights. This doesn't sound like that kind of case -- the
problem here is insults, not the content fight. But banning people
for mere insults is a bad idea. (Banning them for repeated, longterm,
extraordinary failure to co-operate, including failure through a
pattern of insults, is not such a bad idea.)
--Jimbo