On 27/11/2007, Durova nadezhda.durova@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.