Once upon a time there was a user named Curiosity.

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

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Examples: [one](https://stackoverflow.com/q/18130168/447356), [two](https://stackoverflow.com/q/18083886/447356), [three](https://stackoverflow.com/q/18058166/447356)

Then came [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/18467072/447356) where a user posted a comment that might have offended our Curious user:

>[<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/4U2hZ.png" width="450" />](https://i.sstatic.net/4U2hZ.png)

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

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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][2]. 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?

  [1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YNNyRj1snwcJ:stackoverflow.com/users/2553512/curiosity%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/2553512/curiosity