geni wrote: > 2009/2/12 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > >> Indeed. As I suggested, a small amount of enforcement of good >> behaviour amongst the admins by the ArbCom will go a long way to >> getting all admins to behave in a more fitting manner. As Lar pointed >> out, the admin bit is so much of "no big deal" that people will do >> anything not to lose it. >> > > No. Arbcom needs one of a pretty narrow set of Casus bellis to even > act. There are quite a selection of problematical actions an admin can > carry out that arbcom will never be a realistic threat against. In > theory this kind of thing should be prevented by other admins but that > isn't always too effective. > > People have thought that in the past - that the ArbCom won't act against admins doing certain things - and they have been wrong. Your theory is more like wishful thinking from the admin side: there is a tariff, there are procedural things that are constants. In other words the old business of a system that can be gamed in some ways, because it is too rigid. David is essentially correct, and it is faitly obvious that sanctions have a deterrent effect on most people (though not all).
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