2008/6/24 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com> wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008 08:58, Wily D wrote:
>> It was "royal assented" by Jimbo,
but with
>> him effectively removed from his position of arbitrary authority these
>> days, I wonder if the community could vote to disband ArbCom.
> It doesn't need to, since the Arbitrary
Committee doesn't legitimately exist
> in the first place. It doesn't need to be disbanded; everyone just needs to
> start ignoring it.
If the project community consisted solely of
individuals like you and
me that might work, Kurt. But in practice society isn't ready for
anarchy, even on the Internet. If the ArbCom is to lose its power it
will need to be replaced with something else.
Like it or not, Wikipedia actually makes a good case study for why
anarchy doesn't work.
May I link yet again to "The Tyranny Of Structurelessness", about how
hierarchies will form, and you can either account for this or have
them bite you on the backside:
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
(this time linked from the author's own site!)
- d.