Thank you Nathan.
"there is a particular person who is an absolutely outstanding article
writer, but has a longstanding habit of acting like a jerk on a regular
basis. The community and the committee have repeatedly shown themselves
to be incapable of finding a solution to that problem, and this is no
exception."
Is there a term for this phenomenon? There has to be, somewhere. It happens offline all the time - that super accomplished professional who gets to treat everyone like dirt and get away with it because everyone admires their work. So exacerbated in an online community though because this person can terrorize so many more people with their behavior in so much less time.