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

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>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. 
>
Absolutely.  And if you think you're busy now wait until the 
"quick-poll" results start sending mor things your way.

Ec