[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee

White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 16:18:26 UTC 2008


I cannot comment on what I cannot see. People would like to know why
arbitration committee decided not to pass a remedy or vice versa.

There can indeed be some private communication but not everything should be
discussed behind closed doors. The passed remedies are pointless without the
logic behind them.

    - White Cat

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Christiano Moreschi <
moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
> 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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