[WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?

Mon Mar 7 15:04:06 UTC 2005

Theresa Knott said:
>> It wouldn't artificially discourage people from making legitimate
>> complaints for fear that they too would be penalised or at a minimum
>> tempbanned from editing an article until the hearing is complete.
>
> Is there any evidence that this has actually happened in the past?
> Certainly requests for arbitration appear to come thick and fast. I am
> not aware of a legit complaint not having been made out of fear.

I think it is more the case that people have gone to arbcom and not
obtained quite the result they expected.