#ubuntu banlist

[Alan Bell]

there are facilities to have bans automatically lifted after a fixed 
duration
http://ubottu.com/ircc/2012/11/03/ban-management-changes/

but sometimes it is preferred that bans are lifted only after discussing 
the problematic actions in the #ubuntu-ops channel and getting agreement 
from the user that there won't be a repetition of the problem. This has 
always been the way it has been done, but maybe that is open to 
questioning, we haven't seen bans as being a fixed term temporary 
"punishment", just a way of keeping disruptive people out of the 
channels all the time, if they are no longer disruptive then they come 
back in as soon as they commit to not being disruptive.
I kind of like the idea of more fixed term bans, perhaps 24 hour bans 
for people who are temporarily angry/need to sober up and longer bans 
for people who perhaps need some encouragement to get out and find other 
places on the internet to play and perhaps not come back. I recognise 
that there are differences of opinion on this, some really like the ban 
resolution process by negotiation in -ops.

Alan.