[Foundation-l] Board officers elected; Anthere is Chair!

[oscar]

this has absolutely nothing to do anymore with the current thread, and i
strongly support erik moellers kind request to please take this discussion
off this list unto the discussionlist of the english wikipedia.
thank you.

On 11/1/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/1/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is, of course, precisely backwards. The ArbCom is an embodiment
> > of Jimbo's power, that's where it comes from. Jimbo has power because
> > that's how we do it, i.e. the community lets him. (Note that the
> > community frequently tells Jimbo to get knotted.)
>
> That was the case that isn't the case any more.
>
> he appearance of "community blocks" shows that at least the admin
> community regards its self as holding powers that were once
> exclusively Jimbo's and without any obvious link back to Jimbo.
> Arbcom's power no longer comes from "Jimbo has said that we can do
> this" but from "the community said we can do this".
>
> That isn't to say that there is no role for Jimbo (I can't at short
> notice come up with a replacement system for appointing backup arbcom
> members that doesn't have an unacceptably high bureaucratic overhead)
> but the election should be the preserve of the community unless the
> board formally decides to intervene (and if they felt the need to I
> think we would have a very very serious problem).
>
>
>
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> geni
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