Actually, let’s take this in another direction: Suppose the moderator(s) (Is Nancy the only one left) are out on vacation, and Eugine shows up again, and has already farmed enough karma to begin downvoting.
Would it be a Good Guy act, or a Bad Guy act, to downvote all of his karma-farming comments?
I’m not keen on this sort of binary classification. But: I don’t think I would do it in most versions of this scenario, though I dare say some other reasonable people would.
What’s interesting to me about your choice of scenario is that it’s one in which an “identity-based” sanction has already been applied: Eugine, specifically, is not supposed to be active here any more. It would not be so very surprising if that provided an exception to the general principle that voting should be content-based rather than identity-based.
Actually, let’s take this in another direction: Suppose the moderator(s) (Is Nancy the only one left) are out on vacation, and Eugine shows up again, and has already farmed enough karma to begin downvoting.
Would it be a Good Guy act, or a Bad Guy act, to downvote all of his karma-farming comments?
I’m not keen on this sort of binary classification. But: I don’t think I would do it in most versions of this scenario, though I dare say some other reasonable people would.
What’s interesting to me about your choice of scenario is that it’s one in which an “identity-based” sanction has already been applied: Eugine, specifically, is not supposed to be active here any more. It would not be so very surprising if that provided an exception to the general principle that voting should be content-based rather than identity-based.