User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Why current moderating practices aren't working/@comment-25282327-20150320213502/@comment-4845243-20150321230553

@Alemas: "In charge" means "in control." Being able to do things other users cannot do is not tantamount to being in charge. If that were the case, then I would be in charge of you all, because I'm a VSTF and can do stuff none of you can do. Of course that's nonsense. My VSTF rights are meant to allow me to better help the global community, and they don't make me "in charge" of it, but by your line of reasoning, they do.

Also, nice red herring. The point I was making is that we incrementally added methods whereby the non-admin community could have more and more input. The ArbCom, incidentally, wasn't even a failure. It just didn't need to be used very often. It was used once when I was active, and there were a few times it could have been useful after your vote prematurely decommissioned it. But as I said, that's absolutely irrelevant to my point.