[WikiEN-l] Question for Jay and Slim: Checking EXISTING admins for open proxy use

[Steve Summit]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Confirming that someone isn't breaking the rules isn't harassment - it
> doesn't affect the user at all (unless they actually are breaking the
> rules, in which case them being a valued contributor isn't a good
> excuse).

Well, it's more complicated than that, of course.  If in real
life the police came down the street each night, knocking on each
door to see that (say) there was nobody smoking a joint inside,
I think we'd hear some complaints.

If we don't need to check all existing admins to see if they're
using open proxies (as I'm inclined to think we don't),  then
this indicates that violation of NOP is not such a mortal sin,
after all, meaning it maybe shouldn't be held against
CharlotteWebb as strongly as it's being held against her at RfA.
(But of course it's too late to do anything about that now...)