User:Bernanke's Crossbow/Enforcement guidelines
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Please vote against the guidelines for two reasons.
- The voter information guide for this vote states that votes in support of the guidelines do not require a reasoned explanation, whereas votes against do. This makes voting against the new guidelines harder than voting for, and serves to "stack the deck" in favor of approval. The use of an unfair voting process to achieve consensus already suffices to vote in favor of the status quo.
- The UCoC FAQ includes extensive argument that the UCoC will not supersede existing rules and norms for maintaining civility (see Q12-16), but rather serve as a "backstop" for projects with no existing etiquette. The enforcement guidelines instead require extensive training of existing arbitrators in a standardized description of inappropriate behavior and a common manual for how to respond. The resulting effect will be to formalize, legalize, and homogenize responses to uncivil behavior. The formalization will make it harder for uncivil behavior to be rectified in a timely manner. The homogenization will make it harder for individual Wikiprojects (such as specific-language Wikipedias) to develop project norms that match their cultural expectations. And the legalization is likely to do both.
You are welcome to reuse these remarks in your "no" votes.