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Count me among one of the biggest supports of Arbcom. I think they are over-worked, and generally under-appreciated. They take on the toughest situations, and try their best. That said, I'm dumbfounded at how the Tea Party case turned out, specifically (though not exclusively) the sanction against user:Collect. I had not followed that case while in progress. I knew it existed, but the first time I looked at it was after I saw the request for appeal by Collect. I decided to trace through the case, to see if I could understand how the committee reached their sanction. I traced through  my observations at  a talk page post to NW. Short version, I saw virtually nothing in the evidence, and virtually nothing in the workshop, so I was puzzled by the strong sanction. 
The response, and I quote:
You said:
I think that for the large part, the evidence and workshop phases were ignored in this case 

In some fairness, the sanction itself listed some diffs, but I find them short of compelling. 

I think some discussion about process is in order.(Talk) "