As moparisthebest has been unbanned, what is the reason
for continuing
this on the mailing list? Its just causing noise.
They have not been unbanned, but will be on Tuesday at the end of the
moderation-team agreed temp ban period, which they were informed of by me
within moments of the ban having been executed. I'm told they were also
informed by PM by the one who executed the ban.
OTOH, they were specifically asked not to keep talking about it here on list
as this is not an appropriate venue for appeal.
It has already been established the ban itself was a
mistake
There was no mistake. After several warnings about repeated code of conduct
violations issued to the member, all of which have been ignored or even
outright rejected as valid by the member, the moderation team voted that the
breach yesterday was an "enough is enough" moment and issued the temporary
retriction until Tuesday.
If you want a chapter an verse from the Code of Conduct for some reason, the
usually cited sections are "2.4 Be Respectful" and "2.5 Be Friendly and
Supportive". I believe yesterday's violations ran afoul of both of these.
The member was warned, infomred their conduct was inappropriate by several
moderation team members, and continued even after a ban had been effected
(due to the temporary technical issue that accidentally rescinded the ban as
has been described up thread).
The mod team has been discussing and is very aware that communication about
this action was weak. There are a number of excuses here, but no matter it
has been resolved to communicate around these actions more verbosely in the
future to avoid misunderstandings.