Founder's Backlog
B-007

Procedural appeals on Arbiter rulings

Date
before first appeal of an Arbiter ruling
Status
open
Authority
Deferred to: Full Arbiter body (en banc review) or constitutional amendment

Question

What grounds allow procedural appeal? Is en banc review possible? Does it require a supermajority?

Why it's a real question

Arbiters are the resolution backstop for content and conduct disputes. A genuinely-final tier with no procedural review would concentrate substantial unchecked authority in a small body; an unbounded appeal pathway would defeat the purpose of having a backstop at all. The right shape is somewhere in between — narrow grounds (procedural error, demonstrable bias, clear outside-of-mandate ruling), high bar to grant review, and a clear stopping point.