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

[Ken Arromdee]

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.