David Goodman wrote
We already have a great many user complaints that admins are essentially invulnerable. This would greatly increase such dissatisfaction. We have whatever respect we do have, because any user can after all make a direct complaint. Making it impossible would increase the existing feeling of class antagonism.
There is something to this. ArbCom does play the "quis custodiet?" role in relation to the admins, who are a large group (and in proportion to their number only sporadically cause problems).
The only kind of lower court I'd be happy to see was some sort of committee reviewing RfCs.
Charles
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On 10/15/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
David Goodman wrote
We already have a great many user complaints that admins are essentially invulnerable. This would greatly increase such dissatisfaction. We have whatever respect we do have, because any user can after all make a direct complaint. Making it impossible would increase the existing feeling of class antagonism.
There is something to this. ArbCom does play the "quis custodiet?" role in relation to the admins, who are a large group (and in proportion to their number only sporadically cause problems).
I was actually quite relieved and happy at the quality of discussion and candor that happened over the BJADON case, unhappy as I initially was to be a participant.
It's a good thing to have someone out there looking at us in a constructive critic role, outside the rest of the admins and the userbase in general.