On 31/08/06, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/08/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/08/06, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
True, but policy also needs to be good sense.
Or, to summarise the summary of the summary, people are a problem.
Always, but at least I should have a decent policy to beat them with darnit!
I found the following Arbitration Committee finding earlier this year most heartening (and not just because I was involved):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_u...
Admins who got deadminned for doing jawdroppingly dumb things, despite having arguably followed written process all the way. Process is important - the right amount does keep us all from killing each other - but not so important as to be an excuse for stupid.
- d.