[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee

Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk
Fri Mar 21 16:10:50 UTC 2008


They do have a private mailing list, you know. From what I've heard it's not exactly under-used.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:08:25 +0200
> From: wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee
> 
> Arbcom takes a lot of time to make quick and rash decisions. You hardly see
> extensive discussions by arbitrators on workshops or proposed decisions
> anymore
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Christiano Moreschi
> > <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > >  I take it you object to the fact that "They give a lot of leeway to
> > long term trolls yet they do
> > >  not give a fraction of that to good standing users." Now, I agree, and
> > they should start banning
> > >  long-term trolls. Who, I wonder, would be first up against the wall
> > were that to happen?
> >
> > I suspect quite a lot of users would agree that we should take a
> > harder line on some people; however, I'm not sure that there is wide
> > agreement on WHICH people. One person's troll is another person's
> > unfairly maligned good user, I find.
> >
> > Arbcom suffers from the well-known and far from unique problems of
> > committees (slow to decide, cautious).  However, being quick and rash
> > isn't necessarily the right thing either.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
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