charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote: The evidence! :) At the same time, and I am sure Charles will agree because we have talked about it... it can be fine for the ArbCom to always be open to new evidence or arguments from trusted community members as a sanity check. But this is one of the reasons we try to keep the arbcom elections apolitical and why we have the appointment buffer. I think that the last thing any of us want is judges making decisions not based on facts but based on opinion polls. It can be joyful in some cases, but on the whole, it is quite a bad idea.