Anytime they feel it is justified. Our rules ask supervisors to warn people before blocking them, so there should be some kind of communication involved.
A supervisor who is stealing answers from the other users can be reported and he will be banned or demoted by the site.
The administrator of the system will establish new rights for users.
chown user filename
Basically just sets access levels of users or classes of users to different content on network devices.
Provide users or groups with the least amount of privileges required to do their job
As many as you have users with administrative privileges.
Hopefully the supervisor of the topic will notice the change on their watchlist, check the change for vandalism and correctness, and in the process notice that the answer has been deleted. If the answer has been vandalized the supervisor has the authority to suspend the user's privileges to the site. Should you find an answer that has been vandalized, please send a message to the supervisor of the topic or any supervisor and it shall be replaced and the offending user dealt with. Unfortunately, WikiAnswers has its share of vandalism. The vast, vast majority of users that are here for information and knowledge can help the supervisor in dealing with vandalism by reporting it when it is noticed.
Immature users and trolls post vulgarity. The supers remove such content when they find it. If you see it, just flag it, send the link to a supervisor, or take it to the vandalism page.
To ban, you must be a supervisor. Supervisors have the ability to block, or ban, users.
I suggest contacting a high-level supervisor for the topic on which you've been deemed an expert. Different supervisor levels have varying powers regarding users.
SU allows users to use programs with the security privileges of the superuser. This gives the user a huge amount of configurability with windows, mac and linux.
There is a sudoers users file that can constrain certain operations to certain users if you which. The 'man' entry explains how to set it up. Check for the location on your system; it can be in different places depending on the distribution.