QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 1st December 2009, 8:59pm)
QUOTE(RMHED @ Tue 1st December 2009, 9:24pm)
Cla68 is too good for ArbCom, it'd be the ruin of him.
I don't understand why he's running for ArbCom when he's not an admin. I don't think there's much doubt at all that he'd pass an RfA now, so why doesn't he run for that again? Having only admins run for ArbCom has two benefits: first, it requires that every candidate has already received a community endorsement and thus it helps to filter out the waste-of-time candidates, and second, it requires that every candidate have had some experience working on administrative tasks and the implementation of rules--it seems like an arbitrator who didn't have that experience could be at a serious disadvantage. But having said all that, Cla68 can have my vote if he just makes a pledge on one of the two issues I described earlier in the thread.
I couldn't disagree more. In order to pass Rfa these days one has to run a PC gauntlet. A lot of potentially good candidates get thus excluded. Moreover the admin corps(e) as a whole is corrupt; loaded down with Jimbots, Cabalistas and wanna-be's. There is good reason why the number of active admins has been falling and
successful Rfa's have not been keeping pace with this attrition.
We need MORE non-admins on the AC. In fact I think it is an excellent idea to have admin arbs turn in their mops while on the Comm. Sure it won't happen, but it's still a good idea.
Let's not have any delusions here.
Cla68 has stepped on far too many over-sensitive, over-powerful tootsies (he's quite fearless in that regard) to pass Rfa.
But as an Arb candidate he is without peer IMO. Yet I worry how much of a
kiss o deth effect our support of him might have.