That is a red herring. Your thinking about everything backwards. I have a problem with being given punishment based on having disagreed w the arbcom.This website has no right to my labour, which I will withdraw as long as this insult is maintained.
Sam Spade
Ummm ... do you have difficulty with people being treated more leniently if they quietly accept what is handed down to them? I don't see us as really having a punitive regime, at the ArbCom level (I'm not discussing admin actions - with 700 admins you'll get some things that are regrettable). All this judicial language is founded on assumptions that are hard to defend - there is certainly no right to edit a collaborative website, and punishment takes the form of exclusion only from the heavy work of building the site.
Charles