Unimportant Decision 2010 Options

[The Wordsmith]

Well folks, looks like its election season again. Up for grabs are 11 ArbCom seats (9 two-year terms and two one-year terms vacated by Fritpoll and Vanished 6551232), unless our Dear F(l)ounder changes things to get his favourites on Arbcom.

At this point, NewYorkBrad and SirFozzie are pursuing re-election. The terms of FayssalF, Shell Kinney and Carcharoth are also expiring, but no word yet on what they'll do.

A few non-arbs have declared their candidacy: PhilKnight, Harej, and Chase me Ladies, I'm the Cavalry.


Its very early in the game, but any thoughts on this year's horse race?

[powercorrupts]

Balloonman is now out - with another whimper in terms of communications (follow top link). Balloonman - the self-confessed Republican voter who idly boasts about his 'mediation' on the Gore Effect, Palestine and the Tea Party - and of having "30" barnstars and awards. Buffoonman, if you are reading - you a total prick.

Is this now not a total farce? With all those votes already made? And people are still answering their initial questions - with hundreds having voted. There are simply no rules put in place to help the voting peasants at all. It's almost like Wikimedia instinctively hate democracy so much they cannot bear performing it in any kind of professional way. All they care about is who they are aligning with, via their secret channels. Why make it a professional poll?

This standing-down now makes the vote a 'choice' of 19 candidates for the 12 available positions. People will be kicking themselves that they haven't stood. OK, many of the more popular cabal players are clearly in the bag (there is no way Sir Fozzie isn't getting re-elected, etc) - but there is clearly a space (or two) for somebody different now. Few conservatives will have the guts not to at least pretend to support Iridescent, and GiacomoReturned must now stand a real chance now too. And the oddball FT2.

This post has been edited by powercorrupts: Wed 1st December 2010, 9:23pm

[thekohser]

There are simply no rules put in place to help the voting peasants at all.

That may be because the posts being elected are utterly irrelevant to the Wikimedia Foundation and its money-scamming operation.

[powercorrupts]

There are simply no rules put in place to help the voting peasants at all.

That may be because the posts being elected are utterly irrelevant to the Wikimedia Foundation and its money-scamming operation.

The peasants are held with utter contempt for sure, but the motivation is to empire-build for power and for profit - not just to money-scam. You do tend to make them look like small time crooks. Jimbo aspires to so much more than that.

The arbcom posts are utterly annoying to the WMF for sure, but not irrelevant. The WMF is too tied up with WP performance. They don't want completed articles, or even especially good ones, but are still as a business reliant on donation money, and so they do need to keep certain parties happy. Like all aspiring corporations, they are also incredibly image conscious, and bad press will not just bug them, but hinder them.

The Arbitration committee is the main reason they give for keeping their shoal of in-breeding admin free from any realistic threat of unemployment. These bent admin and admin-wannabees aspire to arbcom importance and status, and so they take the whip positions on all the threatening proposals for change - such as bringing in admin terms, or the 'community ban' of certain critical editors. And interweaving it all you have the animal-instinctive pov deals and the various cabals.

This post has been edited by powercorrupts: Thu 2nd December 2010, 12:25am