LavaLizard

Getting back to the OP, I'll answer from a Reviewers perspective. I have not kept track of the numbers so what follows is qualitative rather quantitative. Suffice to say that I have had Appeals support my decision much of the time, but not always. Most people work with the Reviewer to work out any outstanding issues and this means that the percentage of cache submissions that actually go to appeals is pretty small. Some of the caches that go to appeals are where there is a pretty clear and unambiguous guideline violation. It is very rare that Appeals will overrule the Reviewer in these cases. Some of the caches that go to appeals are in gray areas or where the decision to not to publish is a judgement call. If this is the case, there is a greater chance of successful appeal. By the way, speaking as a Reviewer, I never take it personally if someone does appeal a decision that I made. Indeed, I encourage people to make use of the appeals process. It serves the purpose of having additional eyeballs look at the situation and if that results in cache getting published that I initially rejected, then I am good with it. I often learn something from the results of an appeal and that helps me to be a better reviewer.

One should not assume that a reviewer has ignored an NA log just because there has been no response, as yet, by a reviewer. As should be clear from this thread, the issues involved are not always black and white, multiple perspectives may exist, and it can take time to consider the situation.

What can I say? One or more of the SoCal Reviewers had a bad day and missed this one. As written, we should not have published it. Id est culpae. The cache has been archived.

I second that. There's a handful of notifications that I expected to see that have not shown up...

Maybe. Maybe not.