On 6/3/24 3:02 AM, Goffi wrote:
> 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.
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).
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