On 16/10/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
I for one would be worried about the ArbCom then making what amount to content decisions, but I think that leaving that in the hands of the ArbCom would solve many of the problems associated with BADSITES. The other side to this is that we are already giving the ArbCom more and more authority and we've had at least two recent threads here about how the ArbCom is overworked. That doesn't go well together. But yes, leaving it in the hands of the ArbCom would solve many of the problems.
Well, Arbcom was a random suggestion - some body which could say, after deliberation, "I give up, these people are never going to be any use", but be trusted to keep that limited and sane and transparent. (I would not place great faith in all of the current arbcom managing that sensibly, mind you)
Some kind of workable method for keeping people from randomly declaring sites that they don't like to be attack sites would be needed, and requiring an explicit agreement or edict on what those sites would be, from some defined process or group, seems a helpful restriction. But details are there to be worked out :-)