​Hi Sarah, I think the point is that editors who were defending the rights and privacy of the women involved in Gamergate are being sanctioned because (I assume) they did it in some sense inappropriately, perhaps too aggressively, I don't know. (I don't know the details.)

In that sense it looks like a repeat of the gender gap task force decision. In the latter, those trying to stop disruption were sanctioned even harder than those causing it.

The message those cases send is that, if you're trying to protect women's interests, you have to creep around and not stick your neck out. The Chelsea Manning case had similar problems, and Sceptre recently expressed the same concern about the Sexology case.

Another aspect of this is that we've been undermining admins for years so that they (we) are reluctant to act at an early stage to nip things in the bud. As Tony Sidaway wrote: "The administrator corps must be coaxed out of their inappropriate and destructive timidity." I was glad to see the ArbCom's proposed decision thank the admins who have worked on this.

Sarah