On 11/30/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
If you have private data that ArbCom needs you email it to ArbCom.
If you have private data that the community needs to know about, that will reveal severe admin misuse of tools, that will simultaneously exonerate an honest man-- you let the community have it.
The community IS the arbcom, except in the rare cases when the community can't make up its mind. As we saw in this case, once the community had the "evidence", there was substantial consensus about it. The whole arbcom case actually turned out not be needed.
Arbcom does not run this place-- the community runs this place, with HELP when needed from arbcom. Alot of people have that upside down, with the view that "the community shouldn't worry its pretty little head over these things-- let the grownups at arbcom talk about it.
Alec