On 5/28/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Is it worth requesting a clarification from the
ArbCom that this was
not meant as an excuse to act like a dick?
Only if you want people to respond by starting some rather nasty
arguments over whether or not people are dicks.
Arbcom should stay out of the business of writing policy because it is
pretty clear they are not any good at it.
It's pretty clear that it's not what we're supposed to be doing, and
that interpreting arbcom decisions as definitive guides to policy in
all cases is apt to error. Given the brief nature of arbcom
decisions, we don't go into sufficient detail as to reasoning and the
like, so taking an aspect of our decision apart from the case it was
attached to may lack important nuance.
-Matt