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On 08/09/2018 04:55 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> The main problem here that needs to be solved is communicating
> what the problem was in a manner that is clear to the parties whom
> the CoC committee seeks to deter.  A one-week ban is not going to
> help anything if the object of the ban doesn't understand what
> about his behavior elicited the ban.

This. Blocks should be preventative, not punitive[1]. If after a week
is up, and the subject doesn't understand the problematic behavior, or
has no intentions of fixing their behavior, then we're just going to
find ourselves in another wikitech-l thread about the same issues a
few months later. And I'd rather we not.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Blocks_should_be
_preventative

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