QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 13th May 2010, 11:30am)
It would appear that
Abigor/Huib has demonstrated clearly that
Wikimedia Commons is a community of Jimbo sycophants, choosing the line of "global ban means global ban".
Greg, you're not helping. Abigor/Huib is not the Commons community. AFBorchert is closer to it. See the commons
AN discussion he started and cited on your talk page. Abigor is an idiot and is clearly taking disputes from other wikis to Commons. He should be desysopped, from what I've seen, but wikis are pretty reluctant to do that. Nevertheless what he's doing should be made obvious. I'm not going to do much, I'm very new there, my concern is "cross-wiki issues," to be sure. It looks to me like the Commons community will handle this, though the tide could turn if you or one of your supporters get nasty.
Who is supporting the idea that "global ban means global ban"?
At that AN page, it's possibles: NW and Ottava Rima (though I wouldn't lock either one into that position). And definite support for blocking from Herbythyme and JzG (need I say more? Any surprises here?).
Apparently on the side of unblocking are AFBorchert (who was the blocking admin and is simply consulting the community), billinghurst, Erik Warmelink, and Guido den Broeder. EW has 7000 Commons edits, JzG has under ninety. AB and Billinghurst are Commons admins, as is Herbythyme.
NW is a Commons admin; Ottava is
currently blocked on Commons.
Mess. Ottava is a modest contributor at Commons.
What is certainly clear is that there is no consensus for a block, which will normally carry result in unblock, but not necessarily. My guess, though, is that AFB will unblock after a pause, or someone else will. Unless you really do want to be banned -- it might serve your purposes, possibly -- don't give the ones who want such a ban an excuse by being uncivil or socking.