User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20131207065154/@comment-10225-20131210221832

CzechOut wrote: See, to me, the amnesty should be general and without exception, or not at all. (...) What we would do would be a blanket talk page announcement by bot, where we placed a message on everyone's talk page that wished them a happy holiday season and incidentally mentioned that everyone who had been blocked was "let out of jail" for Christmas. So all our users would get a little bit of Christmas cheer and possibly "come home for the holidays".

While being new here, I think this is a very nice idea which could have beneficial pay-off effects in renewed activity by former would-be editors.