Rick wrote:
That doesn't seem to be an option any longer.
No,
instead, we're going to have a months-long runup to
a mediation process, a months-long mediation
process, a months-long runup to an arbitration
process, a months-long arbitration process, and then
maybe, just maybe, somebody will, someday when they
get around to it, propose banning.
RickK
I thought we were going to have somewhat unofficial
mediation, which is just talking, and then we go
through the old banning procedures if we felt we
needed to. The goal of this is to prevent banning, not
delay it, but if needed (eg. if there's lots of active
vandalization, not just an edit conflict), there might
be a ban instead of mediation.
LDan
One thing that will require to be watched with attention will be "how
many people will be in effect banned in the next weeks".
Whether what we will gain in efficiency, we won't lose it in openness.
And the amount of pressure which will be applied on both committee, to
ban people as soon as possible.