On 27/11/2007, Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alec:
> bad sign, IMO. I no longer feel confident that
"the system works."
> There's an ArbCom election coming up, can you imagine the damage that
> would be done to ArbCom's credibility if it were to come out afterward
> that members that were up for election were involved in this and their
> involvement was known but we weren't told about it before voting?
> The secrecy is what's most toxic. Maybe we should start applying
> Verifiability outside of just the encyclopedic content.
What's toxic here is how quickly some people fall
into the same logical
errors I fell prey to, unaware of the irony that they practice exactly the
same faults they criticize.
Confirmation bias is a dangerous thing. Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence.
Indeed. Start with an assumption of bad faith and extrapolate from
there, and you have Wikipedia Review.
Working definition of "cabal": group of people talking that the
labeler isn't in.
- d.