[WikiEN-l] How many Arbitrators should we have?

Thu Oct 6 00:22:01 UTC 2005

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Michael Turley wrote:

>It works in the judicial system because of the hierarchy of reward and
>responsibilities; pay your dues, and you can work your way up to a
>better job, more prestige, and more pay. But on Wikipedia, everything
>is egalitarian; there are few paths "up", and going "up" doesn't earn
>you much. If you change that, so everything isn't as flat as it can
>be as still run smoothly, you'll ruin the Wiki.

Yeah, this is why I think the lower-court judges would be the best way
to do this. They still get to make a decision, but it could be
reviewed and reversed later by ArbCom. The judge would more or less
act as the advocate, since there could be more of them, and they would
have fewer cases to handle individually, so they would have more time
to do what ArbCom hates doing and gets burnt out on easily.

- - Ryan
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