Actually I think you're wrong. It has accomplished something. It's accomplished a lot of frustration and the withdrawal of many good editors, and left the asylum in the hands of the inmates.
RickK
Gareth Owen wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk wrote: It strikes me that the only (partially) succesful rehabilitation of a troublemaking user (Lir) came through a ban, rather than any "arbitration." The addition of a layer of committees and bureaucracy has not, as far as I can tell, achieved anything of any note.