QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 5th July 2011, 9:01am)
QUOTE(lenovo @ Tue 5th July 2011, 3:15am)
I'd like to see the behind-the-scenes discussions of User:Durova's block of User:!! on 18 November 2007, and the ensuing arbcom case "Requests for arbitration/Durova" opened 25 November 2007, closed 1 December 2007.
Oh, yeah! BUMP!
Well, whatever Malice thinks. I'll agree this is of substantial interest.
I saw Durova as getting one very raw deal here. She'd made a mistake (probably!), but corrected it within 40 minutes, as I recall. Compare that to admins who make a mistake and
never admit it.
The big flap was that there was a Sekrit Mailing List! Hah! What did people expect? There are secret mailing lists, there is IRC, not logged except for individual logs, and one or two whole wikis, at least, that are private.
Durova was a very straight shooter, as far as I could tell. She'd become involved in obsessive pursuit of socks, but I see ArbComm as defending that with others, or at least unconcerned about it, as a common practice.
ArbComm did not stand up for Durova. So why not? How was the committee divided on this, if it was?