Training modules/Dealing with online harassment/slides/wwyd-challenge-question-closing-a-case-that-involves-advanced-user-rights

What would you do?: Challenge question: closing a case that involves advanced user rights

This module will periodically present you with "what would you do?" scenarios – hypothetical accounts of difficult situations. The goal in these sections is not to test whether you arrive at an objectively "correct" single answer, but rather to give you a chance to think about the different types of situations you may encounter, and the many issues and decision points that affect any eventual outcome you settle on.

Your team has just finished discussing how to handle a case where user:X was alleged to have harassed user:Z. You believe the evidence shows that user:X, who is also a Steward, has used their access to Z's private information to harass Z off-wiki. While your team believes that banning X from your project is an appropriate action, you are also concerned about X's continued access to private information through their Steward user right. As a local project team, however, you have no ability to revoke the Steward user right. In fact, the only body with that power appears to be either the other Stewards, or the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team.

If you were in this situation... what would you do? Leave your thoughts here.