QUOTE(Grep @ Mon 4th May 2009, 8:56am)
Another meme working its way into the disccourse is
uninvolved admin. It has been used in several ArbCom decisions recently and it is being promoted effectively as a synonym for "your elders and betters". It was worked up by Elonka -- see for example
here where she uses the phrase to justify dispensing pastronising advice from on high. Perhaps the most polished exponent of the art though is
Georgewilliamherbert here where he "reviews the situation" and issues his "conclusions". It really wouldn't come across so well if the phrase read "meddlesome ignoramus", would it?
Deus ex machina is always a fun game when WP is the
machina and you're the one playing god.
Military tribunals have long enjoyed this pleasure. Except they don't give out lollipops and ArbComm doesn't either. Everybody else is forced to just kibbitz.