On 10/14/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/14/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, am I ever going to vote against everyone on ArbCom next time around. Why do people run for it if they won't do the work?
They do the work for bit, it's just the term length is too long. You can't expect people to devote the time required to be a good arbitrator for 3 years.
Yeah, maybe that's an answer. It is a volunteer job, after all. But to hear that they're voted in in January, and some have been on vacation (whatever the phrase was) since January, and only two ArbCom members write the proposed decisions says there is more wrong than right at this point with the committe as a whole. It's no wonder decisions are not being made, people are complaining about too much time to get decisions, and ArbCom members are burnt out. If you have a job that requires a dozen people being performed by 2, it gets tiresome, and it doesn't get done on time or very well.
I would suggest it's a job that requires a lot more than a dozen people, and people with extraordinary patience at that. It's one of the reasons not many arbs hang around for long, and also the reason that some people stay so long on the committee - because they have the patience to deal with crap nobody else wants to deal with. (In other words, the variance of term lengths for individual arbs is insanely huge, because most people are either totally incapable of dealing with the shit thrown at the arbcom, or have the superhuman patience to do what hardly anyone else wants to.)
Johnleemk