[Foundation-l] did i miss something?

[James Hare]

I vote we forgive and forget. Let me share you some folklore from the land
of Wikinews.

A while back, an administrator construed a user's comments as a personal
attack, and blocked said person. Another administrator disagreed, and
blocked the blocking administrator for a hell of a long time for "admin
abuse". Ungodly wheel warring ensued. It was so bad that it actually led to
arbitration. The comments were being made by involved parties, then a fresh
voice came in: Eloquence's. He says that instead of arbitration, the
administrators should forgive and forget. It was a pathetic situation to
begin with, so there was really no value of having arbitration over it.
Indeed, the affair became inactive and the request for arbitration was
withdrawn.

If we spend all this time slapping Erik for messing up, we won't accomplish
anything. Let's forgive Erik and Tim for messing up, consider the fact that
no damage was done, and move onto more important issues.

On 9/27/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/27/06, oscar <oscar.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > therefore: not only did erik unjustly request steward-access, thus using
> his
> > newly acquired board authority to invoke maximum userrights for himself
> on
> > the projects, the rights were actually given to him by his friend tim
> > starling who never was an elected steward at all, but holds these
> rights,
> > just as brion vibber does, purely as a developer, for technical reasons.
> i
> > am sorry, but both went out of line here. the fact that he knew how to
> use
> > the rights, yet seemed not to know how to take them away raises some
> more
> > questions even.
> >
> I vote we smack the wrists of both Tim and Erik.  Erik's twice, and
> Tim's five times.
>
> Anthony
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