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Secondly, being on ArbCom is not like being a bureaucrat. I didn't resign just because I don't like closing RfAs or being a 'crat; I resigned mainly because we didn't need me to be a 'crat. With the burden of username changes shipped off to Meta, enwiki bureaucrats don't really have much to do; there are plenty of 'crats to handle the now-light workload. If the community doesn't need me as a 'crat, and I don't particularly enjoy being one, then I figured it made sense to stop being one; if RfAs weren't getting closed because there weren't enough 'crats around, I would've kept doing it. That's not true of ArbCom members; if the community elects me, then it needs me to keep going. I mean, I'm not going into this expecting to like being on ArbCom. But someone has to do it, and I figure I can probably do it as well as some other anonymous volunteer, so I'll do it.
If someone that I had judged unfavorably in an arbitration decision were to come up to me and ask me "where did I go wrong?", then I'd be able to tell them something--if not, then I'd have been doing a very poor job as arbitrator. If the same happened of an RfA, most of the time I wouldn't have an answer, because they haven't done anything wrong. That's the difference, and that difference hurts.
Thank you. Collect (talk) 13:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm interested in your thoughts on the general state of dispute resolution on Wikipedia. What do you think about this trend toward fewer cases? Do you have any ideas on how to improve the committee's efficiency at ARCA? What if anything can the committee do to help at ANI?
Thanks for answers.
Regarding security in e-mail-communication, especially when it comes to potentially sensitive information about “editors”:
--18:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
I don't know much about how the mailing-list is set up, or what potentially sensitive information is actually shared on it. So nope, can't say I'd strive for any changes in that department, since I don't know what it's like to begin with. Hopefully the most important stuff isn't sent over emails to begin with, but...