On 11/30/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:58:55 +0900, "Mark Ryan" ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
So is Giano getting potentially banned by the ArbCom for wilfully posting a copyright violation? Or defying a Foundation employee? Or not following the correct processes of ArbCom?
For posting a private email in a public forum.
Other options were available, and Giano repeatedly did this even after being asked not to.
Guy (JzG)
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
Guy, with due respect, the very first information the community got about this block directly implied that Arbcom was complicit in the decision to block. That turned out not to be the case, but the community only found that out very shortly before an Arbcom posted on ANI that Arbcom hadn't even received the blocking post. In the meantime, copies of this post were flying around to "trusted" users all over the place, and half were saying it was a terrible block and the other half were saying it made sense except for the absence of one crucial piece of information. In the meantime, many people were saying that arbitrators and foundation representatives and checkusers had all been provided with the information/involved in the discussion/whatever. The community's faith in the propriety of its institutions was being shaken. Everybody could have done things differently. Perhaps Arbcom could have had a spokesmember post to the ANI thread that the committee had not been involved in the discussion and had not been forwarded any information in advance of the block. I don't know if that would have made a difference, or if that thought crossed anyone's mind; it would certainly have been a very unusual situation. As I say, the community was clearly unaware of the position in which Arbcom found itself, and there was no information contradicting the belief that Arbcom had indeed been at least informed in advance of this block.
Risker
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