Not to respond to everything you’ve said, but I question the argument (as I understand it) that because someone is {been around a long-time, well-regarded, many highly-upvoted contributions, lots of karma}, this means they are necessarily someone who at the end of the day you want around / are net positive for the site.
Good contributions are relevant. But so are costs. Arguing against the costs seems valid, saying benefits outweigh costs seems valid, but assuming this is what you’re saying, I don’t think just saying someone has benefits means that obviously obviously you want them as unrestricted citizen.
(I think in fact how it’s actually gone is that all of those positive factors you list have gone into moderators decisions so far in not outright banning Said over the years, and why Ray preferred to rate limit Said rather than ban him. If Said was all negatives, no positives, he’d have been banned long ago.)
Correct me though if there’s a deeper argument here that I’m not seeing.
Not to respond to everything you’ve said, but I question the argument (as I understand it) that because someone is {been around a long-time, well-regarded, many highly-upvoted contributions, lots of karma}, this means they are necessarily someone who at the end of the day you want around / are net positive for the site.
Good contributions are relevant. But so are costs. Arguing against the costs seems valid, saying benefits outweigh costs seems valid, but assuming this is what you’re saying, I don’t think just saying someone has benefits means that obviously obviously you want them as unrestricted citizen.
(I think in fact how it’s actually gone is that all of those positive factors you list have gone into moderators decisions so far in not outright banning Said over the years, and why Ray preferred to rate limit Said rather than ban him. If Said was all negatives, no positives, he’d have been banned long ago.)
Correct me though if there’s a deeper argument here that I’m not seeing.