User blog comment:The Leader/User Unblocking Center?/@comment-113335-20090929181642

AG, the pardon system works like this:


 * Come New Years' Day, we choose multiple petty vandals serving, say, year or life sentences, and spare them by unblocking them. We place a message on their talk page, a template, stating they've recieved an Auld Lang Syne Pardon and are free to edit this site in full. Icmer in NYC is one of the more famous users to get an Auld Lang Syne pardon, just look at him now!


 * Fun note: This tradition can be alluded to an old Islamic tradition of pardoning a man on a holy day (still in practice in some places), and the Biblical reference regarding the Judaism practice of voting a man off Death Row on the Passover (as stated in the Gospels), and freeing him.

On this site, I'd say to give every BOBmaster a maximum of two pardons, and the Sysop Senate a voting board where they all convene and choose, say, five people to set free. BOBmasters can not intervene with the Senate. A vandal can not recieve multiple pardons, and using the power is optional. I'd say give the Rollback Task Force a board to pardon three users, and the Masses can all vote to pardon one.

HOWEVER, this is but a suggestion, and New Year's is long off, so DP will probably propose a far better idea.

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