QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Sat 9th August 2008, 3:58pm)
They are and have always been uniquely incapable of dispute resolution, which is what is sorely needed in this situation. All they know is how to condemn Wikipedia's volunteer contributors, towards whom they adopt an adversarial relationship. Since that they don't wish to condemn either Slim or Cla68, and are incapable of making anyone whole, they're stuck.
As a low-budget attack machine, completely incompetent at the thing it claims to do, the Arbitration Committee should be deleted.
Well, to be cynical a moment, you might consider that the thing is INTENDED to be something other than what it named. They need a low-budget attack machine, but can't exactly
call it WP:ATTACKMACHINE, now can they?
It's a lot like the law.
Socially-acceptable money-extraction revenge-machine is highly descriptive. But TORT is actually the name it goes by.