From: BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com
Successful arbitration cases have been brought against administrators, some of them resulting in loss of administrator powers. Usually in such cases there has been consensus amongst other administrators that a particular admin has gone too far.
I think I remember one case in which the ArbCom revoked administrator privilegies from an admin. Some admin who had a name consisting of tree digits and was not 172. But you are talking in pluralis meaning that you have seen more than one instance of this happening.
I've seen it in a number of cases; sometimes the admins lost their powers temporarly, sometimes permanently, sometimes they had other sanctions not involving admin powers.
It would very good if you could describe the events so that we can see how far an admin actually can go before he or she loses his or hers privilegies. Set a precedence, formalize the rules, so that it doesn't seem like admins are VIP:s with diplomatic immunity.
Bu the rules *are* formalized, and the precedents *have* been set, and it doesn't seem like admins are "VIPs with diplomatic immunity" except to a small number of editors who are typically trolls or cranks.
Jay.