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.