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

Mon Mar 7 15:48:41 UTC 2005

>From: Theresa Knott <theresaknott at gmail.com>
> > 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?

Public evidence?  No, of course not.

>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.

You're on ArbCom, so you wouldn't be; you only hear the cases made by people 
who are brave/foolish enough to approach ArbCom.

Jay.