Once upon a time there was a user named Curiosity.

That user got fair share of questions with what appears to be fair upvotes:

Examples: one, two, three

Then came this question where a user posted a comment that might have offended our Curious user:

Good chances that he/she chose not to sit on the fence and instead revenge that other user by downvoting some of his posts:

And now for the interesting part... as you can see those downvotes came two at a time, which smells of a sock puppet. And I really don't like that smell, so I flagged and explained, expecting a merge and/or suspension if found guilty.

However, Curiosity is no more. Nuked from the face of the virtual Earth we call Stack Overflow, along with all his/her downvoted posts that got auto deleted as well.

My question is: why? Why not a suspension, even for a year if that was a real sock puppet master gaming the system?

Once upon a time there was a user named Curiosity.

That user got fair share of questions with what appears to be fair upvotes:

Examples: one, two, three

Then came this question where a user posted a comment that might have offended our Curious user:

Good chances that he/she chose not to sit on the fence and instead revenge that other user by downvoting some of his posts:

And now for the interesting part... as you can see those downvotes came two at a time, which smells of a sock puppet. And I really don't like that smell, so I flagged and explained, expecting a merge and/or suspension if found guilty.

However, Curiosity is no more. Nuked from the face of the virtual Earth we call Stack Overflow, along with all his/her downvoted posts that got auto deleted as well.

My question is: why? Why not a suspension, even for a year if that was a real sock puppet master gaming the system?

One upon a time there was a user named Curiosity, still exists as a shadow in Google Cache.

That user got fair share of questions with what appears to be fair upvotes:

Examples: one, two, three

Then came this question where a user posted a comment that might have offended our Curious user:

Good chances that he/she chose not to sit on the fence and instead revenge that other user by downvoting some of his posts:

And now for the interesting part... as you can see those downvotes came two at a time, which smells of a sock puppet. And I really don't like that smell, so I flagged and explained, expecting a merge and/or suspension if found guilty.

However, Curiosity is no more. Nuked from the face of the virtual Earth we call Stack Overflow, along with all his/her downvoted posts that got auto deleted as well.

My question is: why? Why not a suspension, even for a year if that was a real sock puppet master gaming the system?

Once upon a time there was a user named Curiosity.

That user got fair share of questions with what appears to be fair upvotes:

Examples: one, two, three

Then came this question where a user posted a comment that might have offended our Curious user:

Good chances that he/she chose not to sit on the fence and instead revenge that other user by downvoting some of his posts:

And now for the interesting part... as you can see those downvotes came two at a time, which smells of a sock puppet. And I really don't like that smell, so I flagged and explained, expecting a merge and/or suspension if found guilty.

However, Curiosity is no more. Nuked from the face of the virtual Earth we call Stack Overflow, along with all his/her downvoted posts that got auto deleted as well.

My question is: why? Why not a suspension, even for a year if that was a real sock puppet master gaming the system?