Wikipediocracy

Although I agree that the community is turning against Arbcom, the community doesn't have the authority to get rid of Arbcom. It was created by Jimbo partly so he could sluff off some of his duties (IMO also to cut ties and not get dragged down with the project as it digressed). I honestly don't th...

These things create their own inertia, to be sure. When I was running for ArbCom BITD and questioned its legitimacy on these grounds, people often liked to ask me "Doesn't the fact that people are voting in these elections prove its legitimacy?" Are we to assume that there were no reublicans taking ...

:facepalm: Godwin's law wins again. I suspect that Rand and Branden won't be regarded as quite as significant as Hitler in the long term. That was a quite intentional violation. :B' They didn't kill millions Not directly, anyway. How much resistance to doing anything about climate change is justifi...

Good. The faster these abominations (MOOCs) lose all credibility, the better off we'll all be.

I think the relevant part of the Terms of Use is this: You agree to comply with the final decisions of dispute resolution bodies that are established by the community for the specific Project editions (such as arbitration committees); these decisions may include sanctions as set out by the policy o...

I had been very critical of admins and the arbitration committee. I stopped editing from my account and locked it only editing as an IP because I felt and still feel they are not worth creating a user account if they don't respect their own policies. I started limiting my edits to advocating for ch...