Seeing the thread this is going, I'm afraid you're right -- to a point. I'm going to pay close attention to this thread and lock it should people keep bashing SIO2 Interactive (quite a mouthful for a username). A few things: - From a moderator perspective, the whole thread will not be deleted, it would not be a mature thing to do. SIO2 has shown an issue with our process, and we need to keep a record of this problem. - From a community perspective: Looking at how easy it was to do this, I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. Actually, I think the next problem we'll face is having editors asking for votes in exchange of freebies -- that'll be quite different to handle. I think it's a shame that we couldn't both (SIO2 and the Community) shuffle our feet and apologise for having allowed this to happen -- just look at SIO2's threads to see how happy he's made some people; has all of that gone just because he plugged holes we should never have allowed to exist in the first place? We need to use these opportunities to further ourselves rather than spend so much time bashing a single individual. Over two hundred posts in this thread alone! So I'll repeat myself, in case I wasn't very clear the first time: Use this thread to discuss how this issue occurred, how we should handle it in the future (because we will have to go there again), summarise what we can learn from it. Use it for bashing again and it will be locked.