From: "Angela" sloog77@yahoo.co.uk
Confidential mediation could be useful for resolving disputes.
This would only involve those directly involved in a dispute. The advantage of it being private is that comments you make can not be later used against you.
This is a simplified version of what the American Arbitration Association (see www.adr.org) do.
There should be one person to represent the complaints by other users.
Aim: more rational and reasoned process.
You just need 12-15 users to spend a few hours a week on this to make it work. Lawyers, social workers, psychologists or philosophy types especially could help. You could vote for certain people to be given each post. The process would take about a month. Jimbo could still overrule it.
This would calm things down and not be so time consuming.
Thanks for that Angela. Very good summary. Alex756