Thread:Bourgeoisie/@comment-4552817-20150216091843/@comment-25995065-20150218170803

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Bourgeoisie wrote: Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: I think the question of "is the ban justified?" boils down to the purpose of a ban. The purpose of a ban is not to "punish" someone, but to prevent disruptive and abusive behavior. As such, it is very rarely appropriate to ban someone after the issue was resolved and they left chat. It's not a question of "does this person deserve a ban?" Rather, it's a question of "is banning this person the most efficient way to solve this conflict and prevent disruption?" If banning Bourg neither 1) solved conflict (since conflict was already solved) nor 2) prevented disruption, then I don't see how the ban is justified. Since this is the most reasonable and thought-out opinion from an administrator in response to the ban, will you lift it per my appeal? Unfortunately, I don't really have the authority to act unilaterally on this issue. I need some consensus from other admins. Majority of users who spoke on the issue agree the ban was unjustified. If you need to wait for more admins to speak on the issue, can you urge them to comment on it soon? It won't do me much good to have appealed the chat ban if the appeal process takes longer than the duration of the chat ban.