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would it not have been best for an Arbitrator to make the block ...
That was how we handled Runcorn/Poetlister, for instance.
Sorry to be a pedant, Durova, but Runcorn, Poetlister etc. were blocked by Dmcdevit, not a current member of ArbCom - the same Dmcdevit who shortly after that blocked someone else as a sockpuppet of Runcorn and had to back down. We only have Dmcdevit's word that the ArbCom even saw the evidence, let alone endorsed the ban. Maybe they just haven't had time to consider it yet.