Gurkenglas comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. “Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild”

[Gurkenglas]

Afaik, the usual state of affairs is that admins can set a new password, but they can’t view the current password, so they couldn’t change it back and you would know that your password was changed.

[mwengler]

so they couldn’t change it back and you would know that your password was changed.

Which of course in the case that you are trying to shut down account access for someone and to reverse downvotes for that someone without deleting their account, is absolutely perfect.