On 11/30/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:17:14 -0500, "Alec
Conroy"
<alecmconroy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Despite participating in the lists and
receiving the "evidence" email,
>no arbiter has agreed yet agreed to recuse themselves. Flonight and
>Morven are currently the deciding votes in a split-decision at the
>Arbcom case proposing to ban Giano for 90 days for revealing the
>evidence that exonerated !!.
The arbitrators *already had* that evidence,
there was no need for
Giano to post anything.
Indeed. Giano appears to have primarily been going for making a big
splash, i.e. drama-queening.
- d.
David and Guy, both Paul August (in the ANI subpage) and Mackensen (on the
Proposed Decisions talk page) have stated that Arbcom did *not* receive a
copy of the list post; it appears that many members of Arbcom first saw
Durova's post when Giano published it on ANI.
It is difficult for people on all sides of this issue to recognize that what
Arbcom members do as individual editors does not equate to what the
committee does as a separate entity. It was probably not appropriate for an
individual Arbcom member to *ask* for a copy of the post when in all
likelihood the matter was going to be brought to the committee's attention.
Many admins asked for and received copies of the post but did not forward it
to the Arbcom mailing list as "confidential evidence" in order for Arbcom to
open a case. Durova, despite the fact she was referring questions to Arbcom,
did not send them a copy of the post. Everyone could have done better on
this one.
There is now a motion to close the case. Let's all try to learn some
lessons from this and put them into action rather than spending the next
month pointing fingers at all and sundry.
Risker
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