On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Alec Conroy wrote:
And if someone makes a police report about a burglar, the police don't respond by arresting both them and the burglar.
Again, the point here isn't justice, but to figure out how we can best write an encyclopedia.
Let us assume, as you do, that there are clear innocents here. Even still, I think it's entirely plausible that a person could be sufficiently victimized that they're no longer capable of performing the role of admin.
As the number of conflicts a user is involved in increases, it errodes their ability to serve as an uninvolved neutral third party able to resolve inter-user conflict.
But the punishment isn't for conflicts, but for *reporting* conflicts.
You might argue that being in more conflicts makes a user less neutral. But it's hard to argue that *reporting* more conflicts makes a user less neutral.