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Fred Bauder wrote:
One of the things which would greatly improve
functioning and
retention of arbitrators is effective advocates who would select
and present evidence which illustrated the contentions of the
parties. As it is now the arbitrators themselves are forced to
view the ridiculous amounts of irrelevant crap which the parties
advance as "evidence" and try to figure out on their own what is
going on.
All right, but that doesn't speak to the suggestion Kelly was making.
Whether you think we need "advocates" or not, the idea on the table is
a tiered court system to replace the single court with original
jurisdiction that we have now. Rather than ArbCom having original
jurisdiction in various cases, there would be several committees -- or
maybe even courts judged by a single editor -- that would have
original jurisdiction in all arbitration cases. ArbCom would only have
juridsiction to hear cases by appeal.
Dividing the work in this way would mean you could add to the number
of arbitrators without too much risk, because if someone makes insane
decisions, "senior arbitrators" on ArbCom would still have the
opportunity to review them. It would also reduce the work load, since
ArbCom would have the decision by the arbitrator to go on, so maybe
they would agree with his or her reasoning but think the punishment
was too harsh and shorten it -- this would require one, maybe two
votes, rather than months of combing through evidence. Alternatively
they could reject the appeal all together and let the previous
decision stand.
This suggestion seems to solve the scalability problems while
preserving final authority in the hands of a few trusted,
community-appointed editors.
Fred Bauder wrote:
The problem with this is that Jimbo, genius that he
is, does not
actively edit and has very limited information to base his choices
on.
Fred
On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
That didn't stop him from appointing arbitrators last time.
- - Ryan
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