ericbarbour wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:39 pm
The bastards LOVE to see people fighting. "Hell with the content, let's harass this editing addict and get a messy arbitration!"
Another thoroughly outdated observation. Anyone keeping their finger on the pulse can name several users who, back in the day, would indeed have been marched to ArbCom for a good old hose down. No longer.
The name of the game now is low level stuff, posturing, leveraging, and now this new promising drama mechanism, XRV, which only yesterday managed to get David Gerard to admit fault for one minor infraction, simply because someone had the good sense to lay out a nice concise list of his more serious violations that, while not particularly useful at AN/I or ArbCom, can be used under this new paradigm to make him think before he acts like a God.
This very week, it was shown that people still operating under the assumption the powers that be will be rewarded by dragging a dispute to ArbCom, will see their powers shown to be ineffectual for reasons, and be forced into doing what Jehochman was forced to do, and surrender his power.
Due to what has gone on these last few years, ArbCom are now nothing more than bizarre and ineffectual mix of jaded veterans and wide eyed n00bs, as detailed here by yours truly. No surprise then that nobody but the seriously deluded even bother with them, for good or evil.
They seek other means, some new, some as old as time itself. None that help anyone trying to promote Wikipedia to partners, which has obvious benefits.
Pays to know this shit.