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Michael Turley wrote:
It works in the judicial system because of the hierarchy of reward and responsibilities; pay your dues, and you can work your way up to a better job, more prestige, and more pay. But on Wikipedia, everything is egalitarian; there are few paths "up", and going "up" doesn't earn you much. If you change that, so everything isn't as flat as it can be as still run smoothly, you'll ruin the Wiki.
Yeah, this is why I think the lower-court judges would be the best way to do this. They still get to make a decision, but it could be reviewed and reversed later by ArbCom. The judge would more or less act as the advocate, since there could be more of them, and they would have fewer cases to handle individually, so they would have more time to do what ArbCom hates doing and gets burnt out on easily.
- - Ryan