"Thomas Dalton" wrote
The other option is to have ArbCom function as a "court of appeal" (which, I guess, makes admins magistrates). I would expect most cases to be appealed, however ArbCom could reject cases far more often than they do now if they've already been reviewed by admins.
A great deal of the AC mailing list traffic is actually just this kind of appeal. That is one hold-up to the real cases: either an email is given attention when it comes in, involving at least a rough discussion of the history, or it will simply be lost.
Community bans are now used on most of the no-brainer cases as it is. That means the AC gets the trickier stuff - if the cases were easier, we'd vote on them quicker.
Charles
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