Thomas Dalton wrote:
Wow, am I ever
going to vote against everyone on ArbCom next time
around. Why do people run for it if they won't do the work?
They do the work for bit, it's just the term length is too long. You
can't expect people to devote the time required to be a good
arbitrator for 3 years.
This is the main reason I've never seriously considered running myself.
I've been with the project since 2001, and I've taken on many
large-scale long-term editing projects, but there's always been the
option of simply stopping what I'm doing when it becomes too tedious and
doing something else instead. If I've made a definite commitment like
running for ArbCom, on the other hand, I'd feel terrible if I dropped
out partway through. And three years is rather a long time to feel
terrible for.