On 31 January 2011 19:48, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If the admins - who the arbcom do in fact directly
supervise - are
enlightened as to the importance of civility, they *will* enforce it
in the rest of the community. Because they won't put up with others
behaving badly when they're not being allowed to.
This is directly in the arbcom's power *and remit* per current policy
and precedent. Only a lack of will stops the arbcom at this point.
I should point out that I may appear to be falling into the fallacy of
"we must do something effective, this is something effective,
therefore we must do this." That is fallacious, and there are
undoubtedly alternatives, possibly better ones.
But something must in fact be done, and it must be *effective*. The
appearance of action is an error that must be avoided.
- d.