On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:50:33 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
I missed this crapfight, and that sounds like a good thing. What happened?
A number of users used the endorsement page to disendorse candidates. Some of the disendorsements were in fact personal attacks. Several people tried to remove the disendorsements from the endorsement page - this led to accusations of censoring, cabalism, and election fraud. Lots of fun all round ;-)
I think that's a reasonable summary...
My thoughts exactly. When you stand for election you do put yourself in the firing line. But as an arbitrator you are going to piss off a certain class of editor. Namely the people up before the AC. These people are somewhat likely to be the sort to be, how shall I put it? - vocal in condemnation of you. You need to be able to take, insults and abuse in order to be an arbiter.
Theresa
Oh, don't get me wrong - I realise that some thickness of hide is needed. I'm a big girl, and I can take that sort of stuff. But I think much of the crap that was thrown during the election process stepped well over the line.
-- ambi