steve v wrote:
Personally, I dislike the fact that Jimbo made those
arbitrary appointments of relatively conservative members. But he justified them at the
time that the Arbcom was shrinking, a "thankless job" and needed some membership
-- who am I to argue with the founder's wisdom? I could say that in a wiki world, he
could have called for a special election and had newly elected temporary members in a
week. But again, who am I to argue?
As I understand it, that was considered, but many people thought it was
counterproductive to have an election for a 6-month term, since we're
going to have regularly-scheduled elections at the end of January
anyway. This was especially true given how acrimonious the last
election was---there was worry that few good candidates would want to go
through a mud-slinging election only to have to do it again 6 months later.
-Mark