On May 5, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
"Voting" has changed to "finding consensus", but the process remains the same. User conduct regulation is called "dispute resolution", but focuses mainly on finding a pseudo-judicial basis to ban troublesome editors.
You think?
Look at the RfC on Whaleto. Does that fit this description? Very often problems are quietly resolved. Of course sometimes they aren't, but I'd suggest that far more disputes are resolved than end up with indef-blocks.
My point isn't that we don't have dispute resolution. Article RfCs and mediation are, in fact, forms of dispute resolution. But "dispute resolution" also lumps in our user conduct processes, including user RfC's (which are the most pointless thing ever) and ArbCom.