Thomas Dalton wrote:
Wow, am I ever going to vote against everyone on ArbCom next time around. Why do people run for it if they won't do the work?
They do the work for bit, it's just the term length is too long. You can't expect people to devote the time required to be a good arbitrator for 3 years.
This is the main reason I've never seriously considered running myself. I've been with the project since 2001, and I've taken on many large-scale long-term editing projects, but there's always been the option of simply stopping what I'm doing when it becomes too tedious and doing something else instead. If I've made a definite commitment like running for ArbCom, on the other hand, I'd feel terrible if I dropped out partway through. And three years is rather a long time to feel terrible for.