Here's a question, Steve: what social problems have been solved by anarchy? If we toss out "oligarchy", decide "voting is evil", and only allow most decisions to proceed on some ill-defined notion of consensus, that's what is left.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An > > arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members > > funded by the WMF (at arm's length for legal reasons), could go a long > > way towards solving the problem. Some users will be reformed when > > their technical power is threatened (be that editing or admin access), > > others will just leave as soon as their reputation is at stake. > > > > Right! Because we all know the solution to social problems is oligarchy. > > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
