On 28/05/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
This is the sort of thing I mean when I say "take care not to craft a
stick for idiots." I suppose I should amend that to "for idiocy."
- d.