On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:54:13 -0500, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Up to a point. If the editor has made a good point we may wish to discuss it even though the user is banned. And I've seen (I forget with whom, so don't ask
Well, yes, but the banning policy explicitly states that all contributions should be rolled back - David Gerard has manually repeated edits made by Amorrow, having assessed them, which is fair, but we really *really* don't want to give the impression that people can be "a little bit banned" - if they think the ban is excessive and want to plea bargain for an editing restriction, I've no reason to believe ArbCom won't hear them.
And contributions to policy debate can be done through this list. I note that most of the people we're talking about, when they've come here, have ended up being kicked from here as well. This probably tells us something about their ability to contribute constructively.
Guy (JzG)