On 4/20/06, Conrad Dunkerson conrad.dunkerson@worldnet.att.net wrote:
There was an arbitration case on wheel warring not so long ago where the set of administrators who were adjudged 'wrong' were reprimanded or de-sysoped while the set of administrators who were adjudged 'right' were not... regardless of the degree to which each individual had engaged in 'wheel warring'. One admin was even PRAISED for 'wheel warring'.
The AC is not supposed to be setting policy, but interpreting it; while this does, de facto, set policy to some degree, there was and AFAIK still is no agreed-upon policy forbidding "wheel warring" (a term I dislike because of its lack of real definition). I personally could not countenance punishing all admins who had reverted all other admins' actions simply to make an example of them, when what they did was not defined as "wrong" anywhere.
I do not think that the just way to get rid of the problem is for the AC to decide on what the policy should be and then make examples of admins until everyone 'gets the message'.
-Matt