User:Amarkov/dispute resolution

Our dispute resolution system is horribly, horribly, broken. The lowest level, third opinion, is the only thing that isn't dysfunctional in some way. There's RfC, which is completely useless because it can enforce nothing, and pointlessly formal to boot. RfM (and its close sister CEM) assume that the editors involved are reasonable enough to accept a compromise that they don't fully agree with, but in most cases, reasonable editors will not need to get that far to end up at a compromise. And Arbcom is far too often an exercise in "Let's see how much stress we can cause!" ...