[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee

[White Cat]

Arbcom takes a lot of time to make quick and rash decisions. You hardly see
extensive discussions by arbitrators on workshops or proposed decisions
anymore

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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