geni wrote:
On 11/12/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
There's an informal (formal?) rule that if a majority of arbitrators ever recuse on a case, they all are automatically unrecused. The justification is that, in all probability, a situation that resulted in a user having personal conflicts with nearly every single arbitrator is more likely to be the fault of the user than the fault individually of every arbitrator. A more practical justification is that it serves as a deterrent to trying to "win" a case by forcing everyone to recuse.
No. Last time we disscussed this the general conclusion was that we would call up past arbcom members and people from other languages if posible. The solution you list runs into the problem that if you have multiple sibjects to abitration it is posible for none of them to have gone overboard in disputes.
Erm. What on Earth do you mean, "no"? Mark was entirely correct - that is exactly the policy we came up with back in January 2004, when we wrote the policies in the first place.
Saying "no", and that "we would call up" is... odd. You are not Jimbo. In fact, the number of people who are not Jimbo is quite astonishingly large. "You" will do no such thing as "call up" people. It is, has been, and seems likely to continue to be, Jimbo's Committee - after all, it is merely a delegation of his powers given committee form.
Yours sincerely, if rather perplexedly,