Re: DIS: RE: Proposal: Intractable cases

2008-06-15 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not starting an emergency session might have been a good way to allow > more judges to be active to handle cases. The Emergency Session ended days ago; non-Senators can sit up.

RE: DIS: RE: Proposal: Intractable cases

2008-06-15 Thread Alexander Smith
root wrote: > If you want to find a way to improve the appeal system, I suggest > trying to find ways to significantly reduce the number of appeal cases > that are getting initiated in the first place. Right now we seem to > be generating more cases than we can really handle, which I think is > wh

Re: DIS: RE: Proposal: Intractable cases

2008-06-14 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I considered keeping out the CotC, but I thought that in a > highly controversial issue a simple majority wasn't enough to > represent actual consensus. I wanted to be sure the judgement was > actually acceptable to ever

Re: DIS: RE: Proposal: Intractable cases

2008-06-14 Thread Ben Caplan
On Saturday 14 June 2008 1:51:51 Alexander Smith wrote: > Pavitra wrote: > > I submit the following proposal, "Intractable cases", AI=2, II=2: > AFAICT that would end up causing double-appealed cases to require > unanimous support from everyone, unless for some reason the CotC was > ineligible to j

DIS: RE: Proposal: Intractable cases

2008-06-14 Thread Alexander Smith
Pavitra wrote: > I submit the following proposal, "Intractable cases", AI=2, II=2: AFAICT that would end up causing double-appealed cases to require unanimous support from everyone, unless for some reason the CotC was ineligible to judge them, under the currently-being-voted-on change to appeal s