Wikipedia has a functioning appeals process in the form of RfCs, third opinions, and other dispute resolution processes (listed at [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]). American police officers don't have that.
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If by “functioning” you mean that a dispute is only considered resolved if it goes the way of the established status quo, I suppose you're right, but that's a weird definition of “functioning”.
What about the courts?
Are you suggesting online communities should resolve disputes through lawsuits? That sounds terrible to me.
Imagine if on hacker news, if your comment broke a rule, that instead of dang deleting it, you got sued! I don't think that would make a good community.
I think they're suggesting that court is the American police officer dispute resolution process - in response to the "American police officers don't have that" bit.