Delirium wrote:
I didn't think we had such an anomaly. It comes as quite a surprise to me that a party to a dispute is supposedly allowed to ban his or her opponent in the dispute. Generally using sysop powers for personal disputes is considered a misuse of power, for the exact same reasons protecting a page is.
Well, I agree with you completely, and it surprised me as well.
The reason I said it is that in this discussion, people seemed to be accepting it as valid. Rick said he couldn't protect the page because he had been editing it. But Rick did ban the user, and the discussions of that banning centereed mainly on whether there was a better way, not on whether there was inappropriateness due to Rick's prior editing.
--Jimbo