ArbCom is well aware that it receives conduct cases that arise from the absence of a functional content dispute resolution process. Any community that is obliged to make community decisions needs a functional conflict resolution process. For reasons unbeknownst to me, WP was originally crafted without any form of conflict resolution. This was partially solved with ArbCom to hear conduct cases. But nothing was done about the underlying problem of devising an orderly process for resolving content disputes.
It makes sense for ArbCom to propose a study intended to recommend a conflict resolution process for content disputes. But after 8 years without a functional decision-making process, the competing factions of WP cannot see their way clear to do what Jimbo should have done when WP was founded.
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