> If the added benefit of causing people more inconvenience is that they push for problems to be fixed, I don’t think it’s fair to cause that inconvenience with the intent of using that to solve the problem. I think it’s a manipulative tactic. That is my idea of what “punishment” we’re talking about.

We are talking about the same punishment.

If fixing the pages would reduce the amount of times people would have to manually fix page encodings locally, just working around the problem leaves the punishment in place for more people.

You express that you are being manipulated to prompt webmasters to solve the underlying problem, even though many more people would benefit from not having to manually work around it.