Personally, I think it's not worth it.
Imagine the debate about defining "rails" and being on and off them. And then we get into doctor's notes.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
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§ ita § - Dec 22, 2003 7:21:40 am PST #6321 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Trudy Booth - Dec 22, 2003 7:23:35 am PST #6322 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Imagine the debate about defining "rails" and being on and off them. And then we get into doctor's notes.
Hee!
I'm just tossing it out there-- spirit of the season and all that.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2003 7:41:00 am PST #6323 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Good for Zoe's mental health.
I cannot express how strongly I think that, since she didn't ask to be reinstated, we just leave it alone. Please.
she was a enthusiastic part of the community when she in good shape
She never was in good shape, IIRC. I mean, while she posted here.
Lyra Jane - Dec 22, 2003 7:43:33 am PST #6324 of 10005
Up with the sun
And maybe we could come up with some sort of probationary reactivation of an account policy for this sort of situation...
Absolutely not, at least not now. I'm sorry Zoe was having problems and I'm glad she's feeling better, and I think we should send her a message saying as much. But reinstating one banned poster would make it much harder to keep up the policy that bannings are permanent.
Cindy - Dec 22, 2003 7:46:03 am PST #6325 of 10005
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I'm glad she's doing better. I was thinking about her when we were planning to be at PF.
I think Beverly has the right idea.
Trudy Booth - Dec 22, 2003 7:50:55 am PST #6326 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
But reinstating one banned poster would make it much harder to keep up the policy that bannings are permanent.
Yep.
A few of us have never been comfortable with permanant exclusion. Someone who was ill and now has their situation under control is a good example of why.
Consuela - Dec 22, 2003 8:20:31 am PST #6327 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, lordie. I'm really reluctant to get back into this right now. It's the holidays and all.
Can it be moot until someone who is banned for an extended period of time brings it up? Please?
Beverly - Dec 22, 2003 8:33:20 am PST #6328 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm with 'Suela. Personally, right nowI'm too tired and frazzled to deal with this, even hypothetically. Especially since no one has actually asked to be reinstated.
Lyra Jane - Dec 22, 2003 8:53:06 am PST #6329 of 10005
Up with the sun
Someone who was ill and now has their situation under control is a good example of why.
My problem with that is that there is no way to prove someone had been ill, short of demanding doctor's notes. Which seems just a tad extreme. And it seems almost insulting to the posters on this board who have remained civil through cancer, divorce, miscarriage and severe depression to say someone else who deals with those things by lashing out at the board should get a free pass if they promise to play nice.
To me, whether bannings should be permanent is a different question than whether we should invite Zoe back. I guess my vote would go yes on allowing any and all banned posters back after a year, no on making case-by-case exceptions.
Fred Pete - Dec 22, 2003 8:56:57 am PST #6330 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.
Can it be moot until someone who is banned for an extended period of time brings it up? Please?
Thirded. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.