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.
KP