[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[Fred Bauder]

> AGK wrote:
>> Let's be proactive - rather than bicker and debate endlessly (in
>> the exhaustive yet courteous manner that only Wikipedians are able to).
>>
> You know, it doesn't actually help people to be thoughtful to label
> discussion "bickering" because some comments are negative.
>
> I happen to disagree strongly with Stevertigo's comment that "the
> customer is always" right in relation to dispute resolution. If that
> were true, terms like "wikilawyer" and "vexatious litigant" would be
> redundant in our context. And they are not.  Anyone who really advocates
> for the opening of another front in dispute resolution had better take
> into account the way our mechanisms become, for some of our "customers",
> mere instruments or means to their ends. The point is not to be
> "proactive" for the sake of activity, but to forward the mission. Just
> wait until DR-en is subject to a barrage of "evidence" not admissible in
> onsite terms, but said to be crucial to someone's view of matters.
>
> Charles
>

It's time to introduce the hoi polloi to the crushing burdens born by the
arbitration committee.

Fred