Part of the problem is that admins often act in situations where they are seen as interested parties. This is not suprising since they often choose to focus on the problems in the areas on their watchlist.
If part of the solution to resolving more disuptes is to encourage admins to be more bold, then it would be good to have a formal process for recruiting truly uninvolved admins to make those decisions. For example, grab an admin working on political history for disputes over pop culture, etc. Perhaps a "disputes for admin intervention" page to describe the issue and request an uninvolved admin investigation and ruling.
-Robert Rohde
On 10/15/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
We already have a great many user complaints that admins are essentially invulnerable. This would greatly increase such dissatisfaction. We have whatever respect we do have, because any user can after all make a direct complaint. Making it impossible would increase the existing feeling of class antagonism.
On 10/14/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/10/2007, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dalton [mailto:thomas.dalton@gmail.com]
If we allowed admins to be a little more BOLD in their admin actions, then ArbCom (and a possible lower court) could simply become a review of individual admins. _______________________________________________
The ArbCom would only address disputes between administrators. Never
disputes between users or between users and administrators.
That could work. Allow admins to handle disputes involving users, and ArbCom just handles disputes between admins. If a user has a problem with an admin, but can't get any other admin to support them, chances are ArbCom would reject the case anyway.
-- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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