--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
This sounds like the fallacy that volunteers can be told to do something other than what they're interested in. I cannot
imagine ever having the
patience to go stub-sorting, but those on WSS can.
They're doing useful work and they feel like they are.
Volunteers may not be "interested" in it, but it may be useful to point out that not all volunteers are considered equal. Some volunteers for example have checkUser access (and indeed 'who checked who' should be open knowledge, [redacting IPs of course]).
Other volunteers are Arbcom members who have been elected (or appointed) to hold decisive authority over other volunteers. IOTM, that if this small group was the least bit creative, they could apply that decisive power toward the completion of goal-oriented tasks. Not all Arbcom "remedies" should be drastic; indeed the Arbcom could be charged with being useful.
Stevertigo
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