(First of all - sorry for the formatting
problems. Yahoo mail settings appear to
have been changed somehow.)
The argument that 'holding an election
puts people through the bother of an election' is a
bit trite. Temporary
positions would not have invited a full
election process, and a speedy and
relatively informal one would have
sufficed.
-Stevertigo
--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
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
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