On 5/24/06, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
This sort of incident, where Administrators (effectively) ban users without any formal Request for Arbitration is becoming more prevalent by the day and seems to be in violation of Wikipedia principles.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BP#Bans
Community bans are becoming more common and are bound to do so, as the community continues to grow at a rate that cannot be matched by the Arbitration Committee's capacity to cope with every single problem user. Eventually (probably very soon) community bans will be more common than arbitration-imposed bans.