I don't think anyone should be on auto-revert, with one exception.
Because:
* Auto-revert can lose good changes, along with the bad.
* Auto-revert provides no possibility for contributor improvement.
* Auto-revert is just plain mean.
Exception:
* Someone who signs in and then starts doing
precisely what would get an 'IP user' banned
But even the lone exception is an emergency measure, until the sysop can contact a
Developer (I'm thinking of mav and the 'MIT vandal').
If someone keeps breaking the rules, we need to give them a period of banning (what in my
Uncle Ed incarnation I would call a "time out"). After the period expires, they
can apologize suitably and resume as if nothing had ever happened (except people might
watch them a bit more closely).
I'm pretty sure a temporary ban, such as I just described, is in accordance with
Jimbo's policy.
Ed Poor