`  :::: Hi BHG. I (and others) spent the best part of 6 hours cajoling yesterday behind the scenes trying to hold this together by email, stop the various sides from escalating the meta-discussion, keep the probation discussions on track, and stop someone else from reblocking. Not because it was wrong that Vk be reblocked (quite the opposite), but because for this to have the best chance of working things have to be done the right way.  The right way out of this was for Vk to hold off from editing (which to his credit he did) and The Deacon to come around to the community consensus and right his mistake, which he appeared just about to do. The timing of your intervention was unfortunate. Nevertheless, I do understand. I thought it was pretty remarkable that, in the face of such overwhelming opposition to the unblock and The Deacon's apparent dismissal of them, no-one had reblocked for so long. I didn't really expect it top survive that long. I just wish you could have held out a little bit longer, especially when The Deacon had indicated he would reconsider sometime today, the calls for him to reverse his unblocking had increased overnight and Vk has already indicated he would not edit anyway. But whats done is done and at least the status quo has been resumed. My feeling is that this had left some wounds and that there will be more to said about this at a later time - but for the moment I echo your call, one thing at a time and lets focus on Vk's conditions now. e `