[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee

[Christiano Moreschi]

Very true. A committee is an animal with four back legs :)

The real problems with the ArbCom all stem from the fact that they arbitrators refuse to get their hands dirty with questions of content. Very properly, since that's not their job and they would doubtless be less than competent at doing so. We really should get some money together for the ArbCom so they can start hiring academics on a consultancy basis to solve their content problems for them.

That's a somewhat far-out solution, but I've become increasingly convinced something like it is necessary.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:57:29 -0700
> From: morven at gmail.com
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Christiano Moreschi
> <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >  I take it you object to the fact that "They give a lot of leeway to long term trolls yet they do
> >  not give a fraction of that to good standing users." Now, I agree, and they should start banning
> >  long-term trolls. Who, I wonder, would be first up against the wall were that to happen?
> 
> I suspect quite a lot of users would agree that we should take a
> harder line on some people; however, I'm not sure that there is wide
> agreement on WHICH people. One person's troll is another person's
> unfairly maligned good user, I find.
> 
> Arbcom suffers from the well-known and far from unique problems of
> committees (slow to decide, cautious).  However, being quick and rash
> isn't necessarily the right thing either.
> 
> -Matt
> 
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