5 Jun
2024
5 Jun
'24
11:29 a.m.
On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 02:07, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter(a)stpeter.im> wrote:
On 6/3/24 3:02 AM, Goffi wrote:
Well, indeed. The question is, should their decisions be based solely on
their own knowledge and ability, or should they based on a reading of
community consensus, or some mixture?
And if Council is acting at least to some degree as the enforcers of
community consensus, then it ought to have the capability to enforce it
outside of two cases (one of which it seems apparent we don't want).
All feedback from experienced community members
is valuable, and I see no
reason why council feedback should matter more.
This is a very important point.
Council members are not special people with special insight - they are
simply community members who are temporarily serving in a role that is
necessary within our standards process.
When I was elected to the IESG, I wrote [1] the
following quote on my
whiteboard: "Power tends to corrupt." --Lord Acton
Lord Acton was only partly right - it doesn't inevitably corrupt, but it
always produces a lot of waste heat.
Dave