Axel-
> He did so by vandalizing their user pages. I told
him to stop. In response
> he vandalized mine.
And so you got angry and banned him.
Wrong. I warned him, he continued his vandalism spree, I banned him. I
would have banned him if he had vandalized any other user page. I and
other developers have long had the authority to ban signed in users in
cases of vandalism. I did not even use developer privileges -- any other
sysop could have, and should have done the same. You should be more
worried about users who call all other Wikipedians nazis and refer to the
whole project as "Nazipedia" than accusing those who try to maintain some
semblance of sanity of abusing power. Nonsensical accusations like that
are poisoning the atmosphere of this project, and I would very much
appreciate it if you would keep them to yourself.
Regards,
Erik