On May 5, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
"Voting" has changed to "finding consensus", but the process
remains
the same. User conduct regulation is called "dispute
resolution", but
focuses mainly on finding a pseudo-judicial basis to ban
troublesome
editors.
You think?
Look at the RfC on Whaleto. Does that fit this description? Very
often problems are quietly resolved. Of course sometimes they aren't,
but I'd suggest that far more disputes are resolved than end up with
indef-blocks.
My point isn't that we don't have dispute resolution. Article RfCs
and mediation are, in fact, forms of dispute resolution. But "dispute
resolution" also lumps in our user conduct processes, including user
RfC's (which are the most pointless thing ever) and ArbCom.
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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch