Daniel Mayer a écrit:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: "The arbitrators will accept a case if four arbitrators have voted to hear it."
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_policy#Requests
I for one will not vote to hear any case where I think that earlier steps in the dispute resolution process would help. I will also not vote to hear cases I think are frivolous.
But a majority vote by the mediation committee would add a great deal of weight to my decision to vote to hear a case. As would a community poll.
For me at least, requests by individuals is just so much background noise.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Do you mean that if the two disputants and the mediator are asking at the same time, it is just ground noise ?
It is interesting, because it goes in the direction I was thinking of. Separation of MC and AC entirely.
Because, as it is currently happening, most cases in mediation (not all, but most really) are "person to person" cases. And indeed, it seems that the commmunity itself does not give much importance to "person to person" conflicts. It seeems the community idea is that "person to person" conflict just happen, and that it is these people business to rule out of the issue; With help or without help of any mediator. But not an issue for the AC committee.
On the other hand, most cases handled by arbitration are cases of "person to community". Ie, cases where everyone is involved, people screaming against the bad person, who must be banned/blocked/spanked whatever. In short, AC seems to accept cases that are globally hurting community, but not case to case issues...that indeed are just background noise till they do not spread to the point of hurting the whole community itself.
DO you see what I mean ?
It might be a sort of guideline, that as long as it is "person to person" with not much impact on community, then it is MC issue, and if MC fails, well, another mediator, or anyone else is welcome to help
If it is "person to community", MC committee could help, but likely, it is a AC issue. When it comes to the point of "person to community", in most cases, these are issues of trolls and vandals, not regular people.