QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Mon 14th November 2011, 8:08pm)
![*](style_images/brack/post_snapback.gif)
You might as well spill the beans, Petey - I suspect it had nothing to do with the pursuit of academic excellence.
See below. I never approved of that. He/she was making it clear that they had little time for Arbcom, had no appetite for actually doing anything. And that's exactly what happened. I sent an email later suggesting they step down and let Sandstein and co take over, since that would do much more good.
Indeed, I voted against him/her in that election and voted for Sandstein and FT2. And someone else interesting, can't remember who.
QUOTE
Eva Destruction Re:Good luck, Sat 27th November 2010, 12:43am
Don't repeat this, but David Fuchs and I (and for all I know some of the others) are both standing purely because we were asked to, to try to stave off the crisis of Sandstein winning a seat and Jimmy Wales then having either to exercise his veto regardless of the crisis it would trigger, or letting him have the checkuser/oversight powers which go with an Arbcom seat and go on a block-and-delete spree against everyone who he thinks is an Enemy Of The Wiki (which is virtually everyone). It's not something I've any particular interest in doing. I've already warned them I'm unlikely to be in a position to actually do very much—unlike most of them, it seems, I have a real job and don't have the luxury of the time to spend 30 hours a week reading XXXXXX and his buddies' rambling emails. I'm a bit uncomfortable that some people seem to be making me out to be some kind of knight riding to Wikipedia's rescue, since my role will probably boil down to "make the occasional comment so I don't appear totally inactive, and keep the seat occupied to stop Sarek getting ideas".
Don't know about meetups; my hours are unpredictable. I definitely won't be available for the December one.
This post has been edited by Peter Damian: