# Shedding light on a three-month suspension **URL:** \ **Category:** PSF\ **Created:** [October 1, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/shedding-light-on-a-three-month-suspension/66337 "2024-10-01T20:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 138
**Author:** ![Rosuav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/rosuav/32/3429_2.png) [@Rosuav](https://discuss.python.org/u/Rosuav)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/shedding-light-on-a-three-month-suspension/66337/138 "2024-11-29T06:25:51Z")
> [@KeithTheEE](#): > > I think that difference between us on “suspension” vs “ban” might actually really help explain why we feel differently about this as a whole. I highly doubt it. Three months of being unable to access the site, vs “a three month ban”. It’s a distinction without a difference, and I don’t think anyone here is fighting over the **word** “ban”. More important here is WHY the ban happened. You talk about “users who made valid reports” and “use of soft skills” etc. But the original message made a number of claims: > [@Three month suspension for a Core Developer](https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-core-developer/60250): > > (Posting for the whole Steering Council) The Steering Council, following a recommendation from the PSF’s Code of Conduct Workgroup, has decided to suspend a Core Developer for three months. Quoting the CoC WG’s recommendation: The user showed these repeated violations of the following behaviors expected by the Code of Conduct: Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic at the time the moderators closed the topic), which created an atmosphere of fear, uncer… It’s those claims, not “attempts to reign in the prior thread”, that were used as justification for the suspension. This was not trying to “make a forum ease off of a topic while everyone’s emotionally heated”. When that happens, the FORUM MODS, not the CoC WG, take action (putting a thread into slow mode, for example). So regardless of whether you call it a “ban” or a “suspension”, it’s those purported crimes that are under discussion, and those are the ones for which there’s been no communication and certainly no litigation. Please, go through that list and show us where anyone attempted to “use soft skills” to deal with things prior to the ban. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.python.org/t/shedding-light-on-a-three-month-suspension/66337)._