Posted by Dinah on June 18, 2005, at 0:43:44
In reply to Re: reconsideration, posted by Dr. Bob on June 18, 2005, at 0:36:34
I'm not asking you to reconsider because he's popular. I'm asking you to reconsider because his previous blockings had nothing to do with DNP's. And because I think he misunderstood the current application of the DNP rule.
I'm not suggesting that you unblock him. I'm just suggesting that under the circumstances, six weeks may be excessive.
I was actually going to suggest that you add a permutation to the blocking rules about violations that have nothing to do with prior ones. So that mentioning a how to get an illegal medication, for example, wouldn't be automatically double a block for being rude to a poster.
Because the reason behind the increase in block length is because people should learn what is acceptable over time, right? But people could learn about one rule without necessarily learning about another.
I think Lar genuinely didn't understand the DNP rules as they stand now, and should receive a block length commensurate with that. Which would be one week.
That's my argument. Not that he should be unblocked because he's popular.
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