[WikiEN-l] Dangerous factionalism (Was: Re: SlimVirgin and CheckUser leaks)

[Delirium]

Alec Conroy wrote:
> In general, a desysopping is often interpreted as "You screwed up
> badly, repeatedly.  We're very mad at you, and we're taking your tools
> away".
> 
> But maybe there's room for "Good work.  You got a lot done.   We
> appreciate it.  It's probably best for the project if you let the rest
> of us take it from here".

It's hard to interpret it that way, though. Asking someone not to do X 
or Y in the future is one thing, but invoking technical measures to 
literally prevent them from doing X or Y in the future is hard to 
interpret as anything but "we distrust you so thoroughly that we feel we 
need to take protective measures through the software against you".

-Mark