QUOTE(JoseClutch @ Mon 22nd December 2008, 7:47am)

QUOTE(grievous @ Sun 21st December 2008, 12:54am)

What I find odd is that this punishment is toothless. She gets the bit back after six months without having to re-run for adminship. Other admins running afoul of arbcom are stripped of their epaulets a-la Lieutenant Dreyfuss and are forced to either re-run or gain approval through Arbcom.
Why does she warrant special consideration, for her hard work writing partisan animal liberation articles?
Temporary desysopings have occurred before, are likely to occur as ArbCom looks to punish rather than rehabilitate. Gustafson got a temporary desysop, I am sure there have been others.
We are to suppose that temp-blocks are not punative but temp desysoppings are?
The really proper thing to do with SlimVirgin would be to
not desysop her for any timed length, but simply remove her bit and tell her she can initiate a new RfA
any time she likes. And good luck.
And if she perennially fails to make it, that would be sort of like a "community desysopping," would it not? Kind of like what all those Kabbalistas suggested had happened (and continues to happen) to perennially pissed-on Everyking.
Of course, they'll never set it up this way for Slim to be retooled, because they know very well what would happen. It would indeed be a cold day in hell before she got the bit back, THAT way.
Now, I see the counterargument coming: that any longtime active administrator builds up enough skeletons and grudges that re-bitting by poll, would be impossible. But that's wrong. Any good amin should be building up goodwill even faster. In the last ArbCom election, plenty of active and longtime administrators were elected with high % of supports. That's proof if can happen. It's not possible for many of the admins we mock here are WR, perhaps, but it should be possible for many good ones.