[WikiEN-l] Re: bans and vandalism (was Wik)
Dan Drake
dd at dandrake.com
Fri May 28 18:35:10 UTC 2004
On Thu, 27 May 2004 19:08:11 UTC, "Martin Harper"
<martin at myreddice.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
> > Does this mean that at the end of the week, he comes back unbanned?
>
> Note that, in the unlikely event that Wik returns after his ban expires, the other
> components of the arbitration ruling will still apply. However, there is a broader point.
> There are roughly three schools of thought:
>
> A) A ban of one month lasts one month, regardless of attempts at evasion.
> B) A ban of one month requires one month of uninterrupted absence from Wikipedia -
> any attempt to evade that ban automatically resets the ban timer. Banned users with
> poor self-control may end up banning themselves indefinately.
> C) Evading a ban is itself a bannable offence - doing so automatically triples the ban
> length (after which, (B) applies).
Thanks, that explains it nicely. I was concerned that (C) might require
yet another long process -- in fact, it still looks as if it might -- but
Wik is now extending his ban one day at a time under (B), so the simple
answer to my question is a solid No.
Reservation: The No is as solid as the consensus behind it. But the
precedent looks good.
But I just re-read what you say. The "automatically" and "after which"
imply that the ban is now 3 weeks, not 1, starting on whatever day he
begins to comply. If I've got that right, I'll shut up, because the
system is _not_ hopelessly tangled in unnecessarily long procedures.
--
Dan Drake
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