On 10/14/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/14/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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