On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Matthew Brown wrote:
A situation where nobody can ever even suggest that someone is behaving badly or suspiciously will not be good for Wikipedia, because some users DO behave badly or suspiciously and discussing that is necessary to reduce the damage that can be caused.
You can reduce the damage caused by guilty users. But if the user turns out to be innocent after all, how do you reduce the damage caused *to* the user *by* the accusation?