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

Mon Mar 7 22:54:06 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Theresa Knott said:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>I think it is more the case that people have gone to arbcom and not
>obtained quite the result they expected.
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Yep.  How does that compare with the probability of success in a small 
claims court?

Ec