The key problems, in fact, are these:
- cases getting harder
- innovation in remedies is no longer solving things
- AC tending to be split, which is what leads to the longest delays
- tendency now to delay closures for just one point, i.e. perfectionism in an imperfect system
- entrenched issues on the site such as COI that would justify a less patient, non-judicial approach
- also, matters that really require executive action being sent to the AC, where they can swamp other discussion
- the volume of informal appeals sent to the AC list
- Arbs also operating Oversight (very active now) and CheckUser functions
These are the new factors. The old factors are fairly well known.
A lot of those can be solved by increasing the size of ArbCom - the chance of an exactly equal split is reduced when there are more people and the workload is shared over more people, reducing each individual's work.