User blog comment:Jake R/Admin and Chatmod Discussion: Swearing/@comment-3064397-20120823210804/@comment-1874924-20120824004539

The requirement for approval by three staff isn't likely to work, because a violation often won't have three staff-level witnesses. In any case, it's an unwritten rule on this wiki that staff generally don't second-guess each other, because we don't want to encourage problem users to play one staffer off against another.

In any case, as I noted in another thread, ban durations on this wiki are at the discretion of the staffer imposing the ban. If Jake and/or Radi wish to set a default ban length as a matter of personal policy, that is in fact their prerogative, although it's not binding on other staffers.