[WikiEN-l] MONGO and the ArbCom

[Jimmy Wales]

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote
>> Of course MONGO should have held back, and we, his friends and fellow
>> admins, should have helped him to do that, but I suspect that the
>> decision is not going to be a popular one. 
> 
> OK, not going to be 'popular'. Do you suggest we look at the evidence, or the buzz?

The evidence! :)  At the same time, and I am sure Charles will agree 
because we have talked about it... it can be fine for the ArbCom to 
always be open to new evidence or arguments from trusted community 
members as a sanity check.

But this is one of the reasons we try to keep the arbcom elections 
apolitical and why we have the appointment buffer.  I think that the 
last thing any of us want is judges making decisions not based on facts 
but based on opinion polls.  It can be joyful in some cases, but on the 
whole, it is quite a bad idea.