This is true, but it is also true that ordinary users of the site usually have less information about these situations than the moderators do, and they may involve things like harrassment that happens outside the forums, and some of the parties involved may not wish for such things to appear in public.
Internet forums are not democracies, but as far as they go, APUG is pretty well behaved and as such doesn't require too much intervention on the part of the moderators. If Sean thinks what we're doing is working, then he'll probably stick with it. If not, it's his site, and it's up to him to decide what to change.