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