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