On 4/19/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
I think it goes without saying that the community has no ability to create an irreversible sanction.
No sanction is irreversible. The community can choose to re-address at any point. I'm not sure why you're leading it down that path, especially since the community spoke literally days ago.
At that time, nobody in the community was willing to unblock. And then somebody, with good reason to unblock, did. It is not necessary to gain community consensus to unblock; the purpose of a block or ban is protection of the encyclopedia from harm, not to express the opinion of the community.