[WikiEN-l] Root and Branch - it's the only way.

[Daniel Mayer]

Angela wrote:
>The necessity to go through the additional stage of
>voting on acceptance of cases seems a waste of time if
>the mediators have already decided that arbitration is
>the best route for the person they are referring. I'm
>not saying they can't veto the referral if they really
>think that's best, but couldn't the default be
>acceptance of cases we refer to them rather than the
>insistence of a vote every time?

We need a way to stem the flood - we are *not* supermen that have no lives
outside of arbitration. These cases take a good deal of time so we need a way
to help regulate the process and also weed out items that are no longer
pressing, or could be handled in lower steps. If needed, we could eventually
recruit more arbitrators in order to better distribute the work load.  

But being hasty will only result in the AC becoming a rubber stamping body for
bans. I also fear that mobs of users could start ganging up on merely unpopular
users. It would be fairly easy to game the system in that case - the mob would
make unreasonable demands to push the issue through the process (got hemlock?).
We need a check on that as well. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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