On 5/28/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Is it worth requesting a clarification from the ArbCom that this was not meant as an excuse to act like a dick?
Only if you want people to respond by starting some rather nasty arguments over whether or not people are dicks.
Arbcom should stay out of the business of writing policy because it is pretty clear they are not any good at it.
It's pretty clear that it's not what we're supposed to be doing, and that interpreting arbcom decisions as definitive guides to policy in all cases is apt to error. Given the brief nature of arbcom decisions, we don't go into sufficient detail as to reasoning and the like, so taking an aspect of our decision apart from the case it was attached to may lack important nuance.
-Matt