[WikiEN-l] Improving ArbCom's lot medium-term

Tue Jul 12 13:16:06 UTC 2005

Jon (thagudearbh at yahoo.co.uk) [050712 05:55]:

BTW, thanks for this. A lot of your suggestions are actually close to ideas
we've been floating already, so I expect the problems can be called obvious
;-)

The AC is a fairly heavy duty to do properly - you have to be able to cope
with unbelievable amounts of crap without becoming flustered - and burnout
is far too easy. Dealing with relentless obnoxiousness and stupidity is
intrinsically not fun. A number of prospective mid-term draftees have
turned the job down already ...

I'm not sure how to get it to scale. I can only see the workload going up
as the editor population goes up, and hence the problem children in
proportion.

Some people also seem to regard the AC as a parent-like authority to run to
in case of conflict, or to try to use a RFAr as a way to bludgeon their
opponent in debate. This is considered less than ideal.

- d.