QUOTE(Manning Bartlett @ Mon 11th July 2011, 12:19am)
I'd be interested to see anything related to the EEML case - late 2009.
I was the clerk on that case, and the conduct of one particular arb led to my withdrawal from the project.
These people don't realize the significance of this kind of incident. People who are deeply committed to the project, when they run into the abusive governance, give up all the time. The damage is deep and long-term, and mostly invisible. People who point this out on-wiki end up banned, unless they have sufficient connections and clout themselves.
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As clerk I was strict but even-handed on this very contentious case. Numerous people received page bans for getting too heated. Most of those people, (eg Radek), accepted their punishment with class and dignity.
Yes. Piotrus, in spades. That's what I saw myself, watching the case and him on the EEML list.
People, even arbs, used to say this about me, by the way, it can be seen in some leaked mail. Until I finally gave up on due process, which took about three years. Now I'm an outlaw, dangerous.
That case was one where the mask came of off "exemplary punishment." It was explicit, I'd never before seen this be admitted, usually the common wisdom was that the wiki does not punish, it merely protects.
Yeah, right.