I think that the sticking point the potential problem with granting this request for many administrators is that while Trongphu is exactly right when he says blocks are preventative rather than for punishment he s also exactly right when he says blocks are preventative rather than for punishment Yes I know that s a tautology but the point is that while Trongphu views this block as punishment because he feels it s unnecessary there s a very valid other viewpoint that the block is preventative because it s preventing Trongphu getting back into this risky environment The block like all indefinite blocks is on his account because it was determined that he needed to be prevented from editing here until he addressed the behavior that led to his block and it s a pretty big leap of faith to say if you remove the thing preventing me from editing I promise I won t edit anymore anyway It could be a 100 honest promise that will be carried out it could be a 100 honest promise that will nevertheless erode in the face of temptation or it could be a less than honest promise because the community has in the past been burned by other people who made similar promises and didn t keep them it s tough to know which this one is and it s tough to be willing to take that leap of faith The other issue is that if the block is lifted not because the behavior has been addressed but simply to restore Trongphu s face that sets off a potential cascade of issues Once he s unblocked on the technicality of I won t edit anyway is he an editor in good standing Does that mean he can exercise a clean start and reincarnate under another username as editors in good standing are permitted to do What happens if he s unblocked on the promise that he won t edit and then immediately returns to editing Can it be a violation of unblock conditions to behave as if you re unblocked when you are unblocked None of these issues mean that an unblock absolutely positively won t happen here or even that one shouldn t necessarily happen here But I think what s causing reluctance on the part of the community is that Trongphu appears to be approaching this as I ve put in enough time now I have the right to get what I want rather than here is what I want how can I convince the community that making that happen isn t a bad idea they will regret Can we work out conditions When we re being asked to take only the word of someone who had previously shown a bit of a tendency to make poor snap decisions when upset and to feel those decisions are justified it s difficult to be sure based only on what he s telling us now that that same person won t do the same thing next time he reads something on enwp that upsets him