User blog comment:Technology Wizard/Update: User Rights Issues/@comment-3451074-20110706021306/@comment-3213322-20110706030943

I am afraid you are asking for more than you bargain for if you wish to explore this question with any degree of seriousness.

The short answer I would put forward is: Once we start trying to qualify the value of a community member's vote (most practically the sentiments of "active members" would hold the most weight here) we are shifting the system pretty far towards the spot that oligarchy holds on the political web. I believe the nature of the wiki is to attempt an experiment more akin to "rule by the masses"

Since I have no great interest in assessing politics from anything but an anthropological view, I won't opinion on the "justice" of the issue. I would give you a light warning, though, that I perceive you attempting to open a can of worms, and every one of them is poisonous.