There's a thread over on the U.S. forums talking about the 45 second cooldown on the priest spell, Silence.  More specifically, it asks the question, "What justifies a 45 second cooldown on the SPriest silence?". So, what does justify it?

Justifying the 45 Seconds

Well, it's pretty obvious that there's going to be a lot of debate about this. People are bound to compare this ability to other classes' abilities, such as: counterspell, spell lock, or perhaps even death coil or polymorph. More...

Season three: The reckoning - WOW Insider

Just read this post on WoWInsider. The post was to-the-point, but one of the comments caught my eye.

Nick S said...

retroactive punishments will always be worse than proactive preventative measures.

If you read through the comments, you'll quickly catch on that there are definitely some very different personalities at play here. You have some players that are so rabidly against win trading that they'll belittle any comment that doesn't outright decry the practice. More...