2008/9/17 Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com:
I would be very very wary about removing people from the list even if you have definite proof that they've committed some rather more heinous sin than using a sock. If that's an issue that should disqualify people from standing, we have to trust that the voters will have the sense to realise this. (Obviously we want to take reasonable precautions against both a user and their sock voting, but that's a different issue entirely.)
I agree, if the community wants a troll on the board then there should be a troll on the board. That said, if anyone is to be removed from the list, it should only be by the unanimous agreement of the election committee - they were formed in order to deal with this kind of thing, let's let them do their job.