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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2803722, member: 84744&quot;]This only removes fairness and impartiality if <i>irrelevant</i> considerations are brought to bear.&nbsp; You mentioned some good examples: a member being a personal friend of yours, or the personal likes and dislikes of particular members.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think a sizeable past contribution to the community, or the positive side of the contribution being inherently rule-risky, are irrelevant factors.&nbsp; I would hope that an established member who has made many valuable contributions would be treated somewhat differently from a new member who behaves badly in the same way.&nbsp; In practice, most justice systems do take these kinds of things into consideration... <i>especially</i> when the decision concerns whether or not to eject someone from the community.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to be clear, I wasn&#039;t suggesting taking into account the &quot;popularity&quot; of a member, just the indisputable facts about the size &amp; value of his contribution.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s an interesting issue.&nbsp; Is Coin Talk a private enterprise, owned by the owner of the domain name?&nbsp; Or is it more like a co-op, constituted by the contributions of its members, and so partly owned by them?&nbsp; A Canadian perspective might be a bit different on this. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; (Note that a member of a co-op who owns a key resource might mistakenly claim to own the whole shebang.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t think this matters much in practice, because the rules are very good ones, and the admins are clearly striving to do what&#039;s best for the community.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If that&#039;s true – <i>with</i> Steve&#039;s relevant positive contributions taken into consideration – then I&#039;d have nothing more to say on the matter.&nbsp; Of course, I can&#039;t know that, so I&#039;m just hoping the admins will indeed take those things into consideration.</p><p><br /></p><p>And again, thank you for your work on this great site.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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