--- "steven l. rubenstein" rubenste@ohiou.edu wrote:
As long as it is seen as a dispute resolving mechanism, rather than as police, I think it would work for both (indeed, one of the problems with the ArbCom right now is that it is both dispute-resolving, and police. Maybe we need both functions, but they call for different mechanisms -- a dispute-resolution process does require, as Fred has insisted, that the committee look at the behavior of "both" parties. But this is possible only because there are two or more parties. I think the policing function requires a committee that can talk to users who violate policies even when no one has filed a formal complaint).
Police are enforcers. The ArbCom does not enforce its rulings - non-ArbCom admins and developers who are interested in that type of thing do. Thus there is already a separation.
I'm all for giving admins broader police powers, but this needs to be implemented in a slow and well thought-out way. I'm not for adding yet another committee since that will not scale nearly as well as using existing admins.
-- mav
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