Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24718406-20160929032831/@comment-5052737-20160929103141

Let's not forget that we sometimes receive PMs and PM logs from other users to add to the discussion on blocks/bans, and we also receive information from users who, I'd tend to believe, wouldn't want to have their name spread around too much.

This is the anoniminity, so to speak, of users giving us information that's at stake. We do some reporting of issues ourselves, but non-admins are involved as well, and I don't think they'd want their name mentioned. If we received a PM log from someone, we'd most likely have to redact the user's username each time (same case with PMs with admins that we copy-paste), which would take some time, and God knows the consequences if we somehow forgot to do it. Plus, the user being reported could very well reveal the reporter's identity themselves, leading to masses of drama, arguments, and mile-long threads.

Users reporting stuff to admins entrust them with keeping their identity within the admin circle. With no admin site, they are at risk of being exposed.